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title: Finland was also one of the first European countries to strongly pro… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: Finland was also one of the first European countries to strongly promote women's equality, with Miina Sillanpää becoming the first female minister in Finnish history in Väinö Tanner's cabinet in 1926–1927. Who acts: Finland, Miina. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Finland, sentence 122

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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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Finland was also one of the first European countries to strongly promote women's equality, with Miina Sillanpää becoming the first female minister in Finnish history in Väinö Tanner's cabinet in 1926–1927.

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**Who acts:** Finland, Miina · **What happens:** be, promote, become · **To what, where:** one, equality, first female minister, cabinet

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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 (Finland, Miina), 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:122
# text = Finland was also one of the first European countries to strongly promote women's equality, with Miina Sillanpää becoming the first female minister in Finnish history in Väinö Tanner's cabinet in 1926–1927.
1	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
8	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	promote	promote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	equality	equality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Miina	Miina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	Sillanpää	Sillanpää	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
23	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Finnish	finnish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	Väinö	Väinö	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Tanner	Tanner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	1926	1926	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	1927	1927	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Finland | one |  |  |  | of the first European countries | tree rules |
| 2 | **promote** | to-infinitive | Finland *not said here* | women's equality |  |  |  | strongly *property* | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equality=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | gerund | Miina | the first female minister in Finnish history |  |  |  | in Väinö Tanner's cabinet *result*; in 1926 | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in cabinet=Result |

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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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