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title: The Whites, backed by Imperial Germany, prevailed over the Reds and… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Whites, backed by Imperial Germany, prevailed over the Reds and their self-proclaimed Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. Who acts: Whites. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 116

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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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The Whites, backed by Imperial Germany, prevailed over the Reds and their self-proclaimed Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic.

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**Who acts:** Whites · **What happens:** back, prevail, proclaim · **To what, where:** Whites, Reds, self

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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 (Whites), 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:116
# text = The Whites, backed by Imperial Germany, prevailed over the Reds and their self-proclaimed Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Whites	White	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	backed	back	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Imperial	Imperial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
7	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Reds	red	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
15	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
18	Finnish	finnish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Socialist	socialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **back** | participle |  | the Whites *not said here* |  |  |  | Imperial *obl:agent* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **prevail** | past | the Whites |  |  | the Reds and Whites's proclaimed Republic |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over red=Location |
| 3 | **proclaim** | participle |  | self |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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