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title: The Old Norse element finnr behind Finland appears to have been a Sc… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Old Norse element finnr behind Finland appears to have been a Scandinavian term for northern neighbours in general, denoting the Sámi in Norwegian usage and the inhabitants of south-western Finland in Swedish usage. Who acts: Old Norse element finnr. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its 
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# Finland, sentence 30

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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 Old Norse element finnr behind Finland appears to have been a Scandinavian term for northern neighbours in general, denoting the Sámi in Norwegian usage and the inhabitants of south-western Finland in Swedish usage.

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**Who acts:** Old Norse element finnr · **What happens:** appear, be, denote · **To what, where:** general, Scandinavian term, Sámi

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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 Norse element finnr), 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:30
# text = The Old Norse element finnr behind Finland appears to have been a Scandinavian term for northern neighbours in general, denoting the Sámi in Norwegian usage and the inhabitants of south-western Finland in Swedish usage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	Norse	norse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	finnr	finnr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Scandinavian	scandinavian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	denoting	denote	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Sámi	Sámi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	usage	usage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	south	south	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Swedish	Swedish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	usage	usage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | the Old Norse element finnr behind Finland |  |  | general |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in general=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive · perfect | the Old Norse element finnr behind Finland *not said here* | a Scandinavian term |  |  |  | for northern neighbours | tree rules |
| 3 | **denote** | gerund | the Old Norse element finnr behind Finland *not said here* | the Sámi |  |  |  | in Swedish usage; in Norwegian usage and the inhabitants of western Finland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot sámi=Theme in usage=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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