--- title: Based upon linguistic evidence, Finland seems to have been primarily… — Finland · tree and pragmatics description: Based upon linguistic evidence, Finland seems to have been primarily inhabited by speakers of Paleo-European languages prior to the migration of the Finno-Ugric peoples, which influenced the Sámi languages who were the first Finno-Ugric peoples to move towards Finland. 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Based upon linguistic evidence, Finland seems to have been primarily inhabited by speakers of Paleo-European languages prior to the migration of the Finno-Ugric peoples, which influenced the Sámi languages who were the first Finno-Ugric peoples to move towards Finland. **Who acts:** Finland, speakers, migration, Sámi languages, Ugric peoples · **What happens:** base, seem, inhabit, influence, be, move · **To what, where:** linguistic evidence, Sámi languages, first Ugric peoples, Finland 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, speakers, migration, Sámi languages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:43 # text = Based upon linguistic evidence, Finland seems to have been primarily inhabited by speakers of Paleo-European languages prior to the migration of the Finno-Ugric peoples, which influenced the Sámi languages who were the first Finno-Ugric peoples to move towards Finland. 1 Based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 case _ _ 2 upon upon ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 linguistic linguistic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 Finland Finland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 9 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 primarily primarily ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 inhabited inhabit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 xcomp _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 Paleo Paleo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 20 prior prior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 23 case _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 migration migration NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 Finno Finno PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Ugric Ugric PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 influenced influence VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Sámi Sámi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 39 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 43 amod _ _ 40 Finno Finno PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 Ugric Ugric PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 acl:relcl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 46 towards towards ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 Finland Finland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **base** | participle | | | | | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **seem** | present | Finland | linguistic evidence *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **inhabit** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | speakers of Paleo European languages prior the migration of the Ugric peoples | | | | | primarily *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **influence** | past | the migration of the Ugric peoples | the Sámi languages | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | past | the Sámi languages | the first Ugric peoples | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **move** | to-infinitive | the migration of the Ugric peoples *not said here* | | | Finland | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards finland=Trajectory | | 8 | **migrate** | | the Ugric peoples | | | | | | nom migration «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Finland/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Finland/44/) - ↑ back to [Finland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Finland/)