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title: In the spirit of Adolf Ivar Arwidsson – "we are not Swedes, we do no… — Finland · tree and pragmatics
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# Finland, sentence 92

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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 the spirit of Adolf Ivar Arwidsson – "we are not Swedes, we do not want to become Russians, so let us be Finns" – a Finnish national identity was established.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** not be, not want, become, let, be, establish · **To what, where:** Swedes, spirit, us, Finns, Finnish national identity

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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 (we), 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:92
# text = In the spirit of Adolf Ivar Arwidsson – "we are not Swedes, we do not want to become Russians, so let us be Finns" – a Finnish national identity was established.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Adolf	Adolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Ivar	Ivar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Arwidsson	Arwidsson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	Swedes	swede	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	Russians	Russian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	Finns	finn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
29	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	Finnish	finnish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | we | Swedes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | we |  |  | the spirit of Adolf and Swedes |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **become** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Russians *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Finns |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **establish** | past · passive |  | a Finnish national identity |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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