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title: Spending from the fund is constrained by the budgetary rule (Handlin… — Norway · tree and pragmatics
description: Spending from the fund is constrained by the budgetary rule (Handlingsregelen), which limits spending over time to no more than the real value yield of the fund, lowered in 2017 to 3% of the fund's total value. Who acts: Spending, limits, fund. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Norway» with its dependency 
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# Norway, sentence 386

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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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Spending from the fund is constrained by the budgetary rule (Handlingsregelen), which limits spending over time to no more than the real value yield of the fund, lowered in 2017 to 3% of the fund's total value.

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**Who acts:** Spending, limits, fund · **What happens:** spend, constrain, know, lower, yield, value · **To what, where:** fund, more, 2017

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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 (Spending, limits, fund), 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:386
# text = Spending from the fund is constrained by the budgetary rule (Handlingsregelen), which limits spending over time to no more than the real value yield of the fund, lowered in 2017 to 3% of the fund's total value.
1	Spending	spend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj:pass	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fund	fund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	constrained	constrain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	budgetary	budgetary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Handlingsregelen	Handlingsregelen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	16	det	_	_
16	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	spending	spend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	no	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	obj	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	yield	yield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fund	fund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	lowered	lower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	fund	fund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | gerund |  |  |  | the fund |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **constrain** | present · passive | Spending |  |  |  |  | by the budgetary rule and which limits | vn limit-76 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **spend** | gerund | which limits *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | to-infinitive | which limits *not said here* | more than the real value yield of the fund |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lower** | participle | Spending *not said here* |  |  | 2017 |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 2017=Destination to %=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **yield** |  |  | the fund |  |  |  |  | nom yield «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **value** |  | the fund |  |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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