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title: In 2009 Helsinki was host of the European Figure Skating Championshi… — Helsinki · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2009 Helsinki was host of the European Figure Skating Championships, and in 2017 it hosted World Figure Skating Championships. Who acts: European Figure, race. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Helsinki» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Helsinki, sentence 378

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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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In 2009 Helsinki was host of the European Figure Skating Championships, and in 2017 it hosted World Figure Skating Championships.

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**Who acts:** European Figure, race · **What happens:** be, skate, host · **To what, where:** Helsinki host, 2009, Championships, World Figure, 2017

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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 (European Figure, race), 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:378
# text = In 2009 Helsinki was host of the European Figure Skating Championships, and in 2017 it hosted World Figure Skating Championships.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Helsinki	Helsinki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	Skating	skate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	Championships	championship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hosted	host	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
18	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Figure	Figure	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Skating	skate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	Championships	championship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Helsinki host |  | 2009 |  | of the European Figure | tree rules |
| 2 | **skate** | gerund | the European Figure *not said here* | Championships |  |  |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme championship=Location |
| 3 | **host** | past | race | Helsinki host *not said here* | World Figure | 2017 |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **skate** | gerund | race *not said here* | Championships |  |  |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme championship=Location |

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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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