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title: In 1640, Count Per Brahe the Younger, together with some descendants… — Helsinki · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1640, Count Per Brahe the Younger, together with some descendants of the original settlers, moved the centre of the city to the Vironniemi peninsula by the sea, today's Kruununhaka district, where the Senate Square and Helsinki Cathedral are located. Who acts: you. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Hels
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# Helsinki, sentence 67

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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 1640, Count Per Brahe the Younger, together with some descendants of the original settlers, moved the centre of the city to the Vironniemi peninsula by the sea, today's Kruununhaka district, where the Senate Square and Helsinki Cathedral are located.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** count, move, locate · **To what, where:** Per, 1640, centre, Vironniemi peninsula, Senate Square

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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 (you), 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:67
# text = In 1640, Count Per Brahe the Younger, together with some descendants of the original settlers, moved the centre of the city to the Vironniemi peninsula by the sea, today's Kruununhaka district, where the Senate Square and Helsinki Cathedral are located.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1640	1640	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Per	Per	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	Brahe	Brahe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Younger	Younger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Vironniemi	Vironniemi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	Kruununhaka	Kruununhaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	46	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Senate	Senate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Square	Square	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	Helsinki	Helsinki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Cathedral	Cathedral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | Per |  | 1640 |  | with some descendants of the original settlers; together *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent per=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | past |  | the centre of the city |  | the Vironniemi peninsula |  | by the sea | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent centre=Theme to peninsula=Source by sea=Trajectory |
| 3 | **locate** | present · passive |  | the Senate Square and Helsinki Cathedral |  |  |  |  | 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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