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title: Pesäpallo, the Finnish equivalent of American baseball, is the natio… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: Pesäpallo, the Finnish equivalent of American baseball, is the national sport of Finland, although the most popular sport in terms of spectators is ice hockey. Who acts: Pesäpallo, popular sport. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 648

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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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Pesäpallo, the Finnish equivalent of American baseball, is the national sport of Finland, although the most popular sport in terms of spectators is ice hockey.

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**Who acts:** Pesäpallo, popular sport · **What happens:** be, term · **To what, where:** national sport, ice hockey, spectators

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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 (Pesäpallo, popular sport), 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:648
# text = Pesäpallo, the Finnish equivalent of American baseball, is the national sport of Finland, although the most popular sport in terms of spectators is ice hockey.
1	Pesäpallo	Pesäpallo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Finnish	finnish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	equivalent	equivalent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	baseball	baseball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	spectators	spectator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	hockey	hockey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pesäpallo | the national sport |  |  |  | of Finland | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the popular sport in terms of spectators | ice hockey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **term** |  |  | spectators |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: 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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