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title: After the Battle of Narva in 1700, one of the first battles of the G… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: After the Battle of Narva in 1700, one of the first battles of the Great Northern War, the Russian army was so severely devastated that Sweden had an open chance to invade Russia. Who acts: Sweden. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 120

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From Wikipedia, [«Sweden»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden), 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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After the Battle of Narva in 1700, one of the first battles of the Great Northern War, the Russian army was so severely devastated that Sweden had an open chance to invade Russia.

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**Who acts:** Sweden · **What happens:** devastate, have, invade, battle · **To what, where:** Russian army, open chance, Russia, Great Northern War

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sweden». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweden), 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:Sweden:120
# text = After the Battle of Narva in 1700, one of the first battles of the Great Northern War, the Russian army was so severely devastated that Sweden had an open chance to invade Russia.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Narva	Narva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1700	1700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	devastated	devastate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	invade	invade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	_
35	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devastate** | past · passive |  | the Russian army |  |  | after the Battle of Narva in 1700 | severely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | past | Sweden | a open chance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 3 | **invade** | to-infinitive | Sweden *not said here* | Russia |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **battle** |  |  | the Great Northern War |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Sweden», 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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