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title: As a result, the old sea bottom turns little by little into dry land… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: As a result, the old sea bottom turns little by little into dry land: the surface area of the country is expanding by about 7 km2 annually. Who acts: old sea bottom, surface area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 203

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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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As a result, the old sea bottom turns little by little into dry land: the surface area of the country is expanding by about 7 km2 annually.

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**Who acts:** old sea bottom, surface area · **What happens:** turn, expand · **To what, where:** dry land

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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 (old sea bottom, surface area), 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:203
# text = As a result, the old sea bottom turns little by little into dry land: the surface area of the country is expanding by about 7 km2 annually.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	expanding	expand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
28	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	flat	_	_
29	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | the old sea bottom |  |  | dry land |  | as a result; by little; little *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme by little=Source into land=Trajectory |
| 2 | **expand** | present · progressive | the surface area of the country |  |  |  |  | by 7; annually *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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