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title: This is the third lowest population density in Europe, after Norway… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the third lowest population density in Europe, after Norway and Iceland, and the lowest in the European Union. Who acts: This. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 469

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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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This is the third lowest population density in Europe, after Norway and Iceland, and the lowest in the European Union.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** third lowest population density, Europe

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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 (This), 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:469
# text = This is the third lowest population density in Europe, after Norway and Iceland, and the lowest in the European Union.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
5	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	density	density	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the third lowest population density and Norway and Iceland |  | Europe |  | Norway and Iceland *conj* | tree rules |

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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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