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title: Espoo's population increased ninefold in sixty years, from 22,874 pe… — Helsinki · tree and pragmatics
description: Espoo's population increased ninefold in sixty years, from 22,874 people in 1950 to 244,353 in 2009. Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Helsinki» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Helsinki, sentence 203

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From Wikipedia, [«Helsinki»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki), 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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Espoo's population increased ninefold in sixty years, from 22,874 people in 1950 to 244,353 in 2009.

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** increase · **To what, where:** ninefold

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Helsinki». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (population), 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:Helsinki:203
# text = Espoo's population increased ninefold in sixty years, from 22,874 people in 1950 to 244,353 in 2009.
1	Espoo	Espoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ninefold	ninefold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	22,874	22,874	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1950	1950	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	244,353	244,353	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | past | Espoo's population | ninefold |  |  | year | 22,874 people in 1950 to 244,353 in 2009 *parataxis* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer ninefold=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, «Helsinki», 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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