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title: The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland has seen its share of the… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland has seen its share of the country's population declining by roughly one percent annually in recent years. Who acts: population, Church. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 504

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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 Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland has seen its share of the country's population declining by roughly one percent annually in recent years.

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**Who acts:** population, Church · **What happens:** see, decline, share · **To what, where:** Evangelical Lutheran Church, population

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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 (population, Church), 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:504
# text = The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland has seen its share of the country's population declining by roughly one percent annually in recent years.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Evangelical	Evangelical	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Lutheran	Lutheran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	declining	decline	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland |  |  |  | Church's share of the country's population *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **decline** | gerund | the country's population *not said here* |  |  |  | year | by one percent | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **share** |  | Church | the country's population |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=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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