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title: Lars Ahlfors (1907–1996), mathematician, Fields medalist — Helsinki · tree and pragmatics
description: Lars Ahlfors (1907–1996), mathematician, Fields medalist A sentence of Wikipedia's «Helsinki» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Helsinki, sentence 465

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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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Lars Ahlfors (1907–1996), mathematician, Fields medalist

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**What happens:** field · **To what, where:** Ahlfors

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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:465
# text = Lars Ahlfors (1907–1996), mathematician, Fields medalist
1	Lars	lar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	Ahlfors	Ahlfor	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	1907	1907	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	1996	1996	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mathematician	mathematician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Fields	field	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	medalist	medalist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **field** | present |  | Ahlfors  Lars |  |  |  | medalist *obj* | tree rules |

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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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