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title: However, the majority of Lutherans attend church only for special oc… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the majority of Lutherans attend church only for special occasions like Christmas ceremonies, weddings, and funerals. Who acts: majority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 516

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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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However, the majority of Lutherans attend church only for special occasions like Christmas ceremonies, weddings, and funerals.

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**Who acts:** majority · **What happens:** attend · **To what, where:** church

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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 (majority), 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:516
# text = However, the majority of Lutherans attend church only for special occasions like Christmas ceremonies, weddings, and funerals.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lutherans	Lutheran	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	attend	attend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	weddings	wedding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	funerals	funeral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | present | the majority of Lutherans | church |  |  |  | for special occasions like Christmas ceremonies and weddings; funerals *obl*; however *property* | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Goal |

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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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