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title: Helsinki was already known in the 18th century for its abundant numb… — Helsinki · tree and pragmatics
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# Helsinki, sentence 340

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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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Helsinki was already known in the 18th century for its abundant number of inns and pubs, where both locals and those who landed in the harbor were offered plenty of alcoholic beverages.

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**What happens:** know, land, offer · **To what, where:** Helsinki, harbor, locals

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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: 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:340
# text = Helsinki was already known in the 18th century for its abundant number of inns and pubs, where both locals and those who landed in the harbor were offered plenty of alcoholic beverages.
1	Helsinki	Helsinki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	abundant	abundant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	inns	inn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pubs	pub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	locals	local	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	conj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	harbor	harbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
30	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	alcoholic	alcoholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	beverages	beverage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **know** | past · passive |  | Helsinki |  |  | century | for Broadcasting's abundant number of inns and pubs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **land** | past |  |  |  | the harbor |  | who *nsubj* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in harbor=Destination |
| 3 | **offer** | past · passive |  | both locals  those |  |  |  | plenty of alcoholic beverages *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal plenty=Theme |

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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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