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title: From the 19th century up to the 1970s, the Norwegian government trie… — Norway · tree and pragmatics
description: From the 19th century up to the 1970s, the Norwegian government tried to assimilate both the Sámi and the Kven, encouraging them to adopt the majority language, culture and religion. Who acts: Norwegian government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Norway» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Norway, sentence 463

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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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From the 19th century up to the 1970s, the Norwegian government tried to assimilate both the Sámi and the Kven, encouraging them to adopt the majority language, culture and religion.

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**Who acts:** Norwegian government · **What happens:** try, assimilate, encourage, adopt · **To what, where:** Sámi, majority language

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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 (Norwegian government), 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:463
# text = From the 19th century up to the 1970s, the Norwegian government tried to assimilate both the Sámi and the Kven, encouraging them to adopt the majority language, culture and religion.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	assimilate	assimilate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc:preconj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Sámi	Sámi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Kven	Kven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	encouraging	encourage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	adopt	adopt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | the Norwegian government |  |  |  | century |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **assimilate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Norwegian government *not said here* | the Sámi and the Kven |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sámi=Patient |
| 3 | **encourage** | gerund | the Norwegian government *not said here* | Sámi |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **adopt** | to-infinitive | the Norwegian government *not said here* | the majority language and culture and religion |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Theme |

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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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