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title: In 1854, Finland became involved in Russia's involvement in the Crim… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1854, Finland became involved in Russia's involvement in the Crimean War when the British and French navies bombed the Finnish coast and Åland during the so-called Åland War. Who acts: Finland, British navies, Russia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Finland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Finland, sentence 87

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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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In 1854, Finland became involved in Russia's involvement in the Crimean War when the British and French navies bombed the Finnish coast and Åland during the so-called Åland War.

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**Who acts:** Finland, British navies, Russia · **What happens:** become, bomb, call, involve · **To what, where:** 1854, Finnish coast, Crimean War · **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 (Finland, British navies, Russia), 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:87
# text = In 1854, Finland became involved in Russia's involvement in the Crimean War when the British and French navies bombed the Finnish coast and Åland during the so-called Åland War.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1854	1854	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	involved	involved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	involvement	involvement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Crimean	Crimean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	navies	navy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bombed	bomb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Finnish	finnish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Åland	Åland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	during	during	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
32	Åland	Åland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Finland |  |  |  |  | in 1854 *result*; involved *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1854=Result |
| 2 | **bomb** | past | the British navies | the Finnish coast and Åland |  |  | during the called Åland War |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **involve** |  | Russia |  |  | the Crimean War |  |  | nom involvement «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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