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title: Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Finland declared its indep… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Finland declared its independence. Who acts: Following Russian Revolution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 14

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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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Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Finland declared its independence.

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**Who acts:** Following Russian Revolution · **What happens:** follow, declare · **To what, where:** independence

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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 (Following Russian Revolution), 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:14
# text = Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Finland declared its independence.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	amod	_	_
4	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Following Russian Revolution of 1917 | Revolution's independence |  |  |  | Finland *nsubj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute |

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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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