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title: The Finnish-Russian border was established in 1920 by the Treaty of… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Finnish-Russian border was established in 1920 by the Treaty of Tartu, which largely followed the historical border but gave Finland Pechenga (Petsamo) and its Barents Sea port. Who acts: Treaty, Barents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 123

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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 Finnish-Russian border was established in 1920 by the Treaty of Tartu, which largely followed the historical border but gave Finland Pechenga (Petsamo) and its Barents Sea port.

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**Who acts:** Treaty, Barents · **What happens:** establish, follow, give, port · **To what, where:** Finnish Russian border, 1920, Treaty, Finland Pechenga

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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 (Treaty, Barents), 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:123
# text = The Finnish-Russian border was established in 1920 by the Treaty of Tartu, which largely followed the historical border but gave Finland Pechenga (Petsamo) and its Barents Sea port.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Finnish	finnish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Tartu	Tartu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Pechenga	Pechenga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Petsamo	Petsamo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	Barents	barent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **establish** | past · passive | the Treaty of Tartu | the Finnish Russian border |  | 1920 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **follow** | past |  | the Treaty of Tartu |  |  |  | the historical border *obj*; largely *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent which=Theme border=Attribute |
| 3 | **give** | past | the Treaty of Tartu *not said here* | Finland Pechenga |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pechenga=Theme |
| 4 | **port** |  | Treaty's Barents |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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