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title: The glaciers were thicker and lasted longer in Fennoscandia compared… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: The glaciers were thicker and lasted longer in Fennoscandia compared with the rest of Europe. Who acts: glaciers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 191

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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 glaciers were thicker and lasted longer in Fennoscandia compared with the rest of Europe.

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**Who acts:** glaciers · **What happens:** be, last, compare · **To what, where:** Fennoscandia

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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 (glaciers), 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:191
# text = The glaciers were thicker and lasted longer in Fennoscandia compared with the rest of Europe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Fennoscandia	Fennoscandia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	compared	compare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the glaciers |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **last** | past | the glaciers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **compare** | past | the glaciers *not said here* |  |  | Fennoscandia |  | with the rest of Europe | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with rest=Co-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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