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title: Its acts are not subject to judicial review; the constitutionality o… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: Its acts are not subject to judicial review; the constitutionality of new laws is assessed by the parliament's constitutional law committee. Who acts: acts, constitutional law committee, authority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 271

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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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Its acts are not subject to judicial review; the constitutionality of new laws is assessed by the parliament's constitutional law committee.

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**Who acts:** acts, constitutional law committee, authority · **What happens:** not be, assess, act · **To what, where:** constitutionality

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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 (acts, constitutional law committee, authority), 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:271
# text = Its acts are not subject to judicial review; the constitutionality of new laws is assessed by the parliament's constitutional law committee.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	subject	subject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	review	review	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	constitutionality	constitutionality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	assessed	assess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	committee	committee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | authority's acts |  |  |  |  | to judicial review; subject *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **assess** | present · passive | the parliament's constitutional law committee | the constitutionality of new laws |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **act** |  | authority |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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