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title: Finland joined the European Union in 1995 and the euro zone in 1999. — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: Finland joined the European Union in 1995 and the euro zone in 1999. Who acts: Finland. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 170

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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 joined the European Union in 1995 and the euro zone in 1999.

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**Who acts:** Finland · **What happens:** join · **To what, where:** European Union, 1995

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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), 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:170
# text = Finland joined the European Union in 1995 and the euro zone in 1999.
1	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	euro	Euro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | Finland | the European Union |  | 1995 and the euro zone in 1999 |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Patient |

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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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