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title: Contacts with the ancient Baltic and eastern Germanic peoples greatl… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: Contacts with the ancient Baltic and eastern Germanic peoples greatly influenced the Proto-Finnic language. Who acts: Contacts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 60

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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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Contacts with the ancient Baltic and eastern Germanic peoples greatly influenced the Proto-Finnic language.

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**Who acts:** Contacts · **What happens:** influence · **To what, where:** Finnic language

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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 (Contacts), 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:60
# text = Contacts with the ancient Baltic and eastern Germanic peoples greatly influenced the Proto-Finnic language.
1	Contacts	contact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
5	Baltic	baltic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	Germanic	germanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
10	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	influenced	influence	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	Proto	Proto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Finnic	Finnic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **influence** | past | Contacts with the ancient Baltic Germanic peoples | the Finnic language |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=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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