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title: Returning to Sweden in 1715, Charles XII launched two campaigns agai… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: Returning to Sweden in 1715, Charles XII launched two campaigns against Norway in 1716 and 1718, respectively. Who acts: Charles. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 127

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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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Returning to Sweden in 1715, Charles XII launched two campaigns against Norway in 1716 and 1718, respectively.

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**Who acts:** Charles · **What happens:** return, launch · **To what, where:** Sweden, 1715, two campaigns, 1716

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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 (Charles), 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:127
# text = Returning to Sweden in 1715, Charles XII launched two campaigns against Norway in 1716 and 1718, respectively.
1	Returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1715	1715	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	XII	XII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	campaigns	campaign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1716	1716	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	1718	1718	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	respectively	respectively	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | Charles *not said here* |  | Sweden | 1715 |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to sweden=Result |
| 2 | **launch** | past | Charles | two campaigns |  | 1716 |  | against Norway; respectively *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent campaign=Theme in 1716=Destination |

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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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