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title: The Swedish government unofficially supported Finland in the Winter… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: The Swedish government unofficially supported Finland in the Winter War and the Continuation War by allowing volunteers and materiel to be shipped to Finland. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 161

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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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The Swedish government unofficially supported Finland in the Winter War and the Continuation War by allowing volunteers and materiel to be shipped to Finland.

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**What happens:** support, allow, ship · **To what, where:** Swedish government, Winter War, volunteers, Finland

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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: 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:161
# text = The Swedish government unofficially supported Finland in the Winter War and the Continuation War by allowing volunteers and materiel to be shipped to Finland.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Swedish	Swedish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	unofficially	unofficially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Continuation	Continuation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	allowing	allow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
17	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	materiel	materiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	shipped	ship	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **support** | participle · passive |  | the Swedish government |  | the Winter War and the Continuation War |  | Finland *obj*; unofficially *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** | gerund |  | volunteers and materiel |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volunteer=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **ship** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  | Finland |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to finland=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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