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title: If they are born in Finland and cannot obtain citizenship of another… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: If they are born in Finland and cannot obtain citizenship of another country, they become Finnish citizens. Who acts: children. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 476

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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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If they are born in Finland and cannot obtain citizenship of another country, they become Finnish citizens.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** bear, not obtain, become · **To what, where:** children, Finland, citizenship, Finnish citizens

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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 (children), 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:476
# text = If they are born in Finland and cannot obtain citizenship of another country, they become Finnish citizens.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	citizenship	citizenship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	Finnish	finnish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | children *= child* |  | Finland |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **obtain** | can |  | citizenship of another country |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset citizenship=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | present | children *= child* | Finnish citizens |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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