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title: Vantaa saw an even more dramatic change in the same time span: from… — Helsinki · tree and pragmatics
description: Vantaa saw an even more dramatic change in the same time span: from 14,976 in 1950 to 197,663 in 2009, a thirteenfold increase. Who acts: Vantaa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Helsinki» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Helsinki, sentence 204

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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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Vantaa saw an even more dramatic change in the same time span: from 14,976 in 1950 to 197,663 in 2009, a thirteenfold increase.

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**Who acts:** Vantaa · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** dramatic change, same time span

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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 (Vantaa), 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:204
# text = Vantaa saw an even more dramatic change in the same time span: from 14,976 in 1950 to 197,663 in 2009, a thirteenfold increase.
1	Vantaa	Vantaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	14,976	14,976	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1950	1950	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	197,663	197,663	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	thirteenfold	thirteenfold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Vantaa | a dramatic change |  | the same time span |  | from 14,976 in 1950 to 197,663 in 2009 and a thirteenfold increase | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus |

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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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