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title: As Sweden's military was not strong enough to defeat the Norwegian f… — Norway · tree and pragmatics
description: As Sweden's military was not strong enough to defeat the Norwegian forces outright, and Norway's treasury was not large enough to support a protracted war, and as British and Russian navies blockaded the Norwegian coast, the belligerents were forced to negotiate the Convention of Moss. Who acts: tre
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# Norway, sentence 117

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From Wikipedia, [«Norway»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway), 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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As Sweden's military was not strong enough to defeat the Norwegian forces outright, and Norway's treasury was not large enough to support a protracted war, and as British and Russian navies blockaded the Norwegian coast, the belligerents were forced to negotiate the Convention of Moss.

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**Who acts:** treasury, British navies, belligerents · **What happens:** not be, defeat, support, protract, blockade, force · **To what, where:** Norwegian forces, protracted war, Norwegian coast, belligerents, Convention

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Norway». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasury, British navies, belligerents), 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:Norway:117
# text = As Sweden's military was not strong enough to defeat the Norwegian forces outright, and Norway's treasury was not large enough to support a protracted war, and as British and Russian navies blockaded the Norwegian coast, the belligerents were forced to negotiate the Convention of Moss.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	defeat	defeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	outright	outright	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
23	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	protracted	protract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	navies	navy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	blockaded	blockade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	belligerents	belligerent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	parataxis	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	negotiate	negotiate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Convention	Convention	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Moss	Moss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as Sweden's military; enough, strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **defeat** | to-infinitive |  | the Norwegian forces |  |  |  | outright *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | Norway's treasury |  |  |  |  | enough, large *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **support** | to-infinitive | Norway's treasury *not said here* | a protracted war |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer war=Stimulus |
| 5 | **protract** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **blockade** | past | British navies | the Norwegian coast |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coast=Destination |
| 7 | **force** | past · passive |  | the belligerents |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **negotiate** | to-infinitive | the belligerents *not said here* | the Convention of Moss |  |  |  |  | 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, «Norway», 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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