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title: For example, universal suffrage was virtually meaningless in practic… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, universal suffrage was virtually meaningless in practice, as the tsar did not have to approve any of the laws passed by the Finnish parliament. Who acts: universal suffrage, tsar. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 101

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From Wikipedia, [«Finland»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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For example, universal suffrage was virtually meaningless in practice, as the tsar did not have to approve any of the laws passed by the Finnish parliament.

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**Who acts:** universal suffrage, tsar · **What happens:** be, not have, approve, pass · **To what, where:** practice, any, laws

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Finland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (universal suffrage, tsar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Finland:101
# text = For example, universal suffrage was virtually meaningless in practice, as the tsar did not have to approve any of the laws passed by the Finnish parliament.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	suffrage	suffrage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	virtually	virtually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	meaningless	meaningless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tsar	tsar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	approve	approve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Finnish	finnish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | universal suffrage |  |  | practice |  | for example; meaningless, virtually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **have** | past · do-support | the tsar |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **approve** | to-infinitive | the tsar *not said here* | any of the laws |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **pass** | participle |  | the laws *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Finnish parliament | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by parliament=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Finland», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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