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title: The people of northern Finland, Sweden, and Norway, the Sámi, are kn… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: The people of northern Finland, Sweden, and Norway, the Sámi, are known primarily for highly spiritual songs called joik. Who acts: spiritual songs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 594

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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 people of northern Finland, Sweden, and Norway, the Sámi, are known primarily for highly spiritual songs called joik.

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**Who acts:** spiritual songs · **What happens:** know, call · **To what, where:** people, joik · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (spiritual songs), 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:594
# text = The people of northern Finland, Sweden, and Norway, the Sámi, are known primarily for highly spiritual songs called joik.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Sámi	Sámi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	joik	joik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | the people of northern Finland and Sweden and Norway and the Sámi |  |  |  | for spiritual songs; primarily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **call** | participle | spiritual songs *not said here* | joik |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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