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title: The civil war and the activist expeditions to Soviet Russia in 1918–… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: The civil war and the activist expeditions to Soviet Russia in 1918–1920, known as the "Kinship Wars", strained relations with the East. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 119

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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 civil war and the activist expeditions to Soviet Russia in 1918–1920, known as the "Kinship Wars", strained relations with the East.

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**What happens:** know, strain · **To what, where:** civil war

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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: 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:119
# text = The civil war and the activist expeditions to Soviet Russia in 1918–1920, known as the "Kinship Wars", strained relations with the East.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	activist	activist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	expeditions	expedition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Kinship	Kinship	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Wars	War	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	strained	strain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | the civil war and the activist expeditions to Soviet Russia in 1918  1920 *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Kinship Wars and strained relations with the East | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as war=Attribute |
| 2 | **strain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: 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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