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title: Like many industrialised countries, Sweden entered a period of econo… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: Like many industrialised countries, Sweden entered a period of economic decline and upheaval following the oil embargoes of 1973–74 and 1978–79. Who acts: Sweden, economic decline. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 173

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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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Like many industrialised countries, Sweden entered a period of economic decline and upheaval following the oil embargoes of 1973–74 and 1978–79.

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**Who acts:** Sweden, economic decline · **What happens:** industrialis, enter, follow · **To what, where:** period, oil embargoes

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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, economic decline), 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:173
# text = Like many industrialised countries, Sweden entered a period of economic decline and upheaval following the oil embargoes of 1973–74 and 1978–79.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	industrialised	industrialis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	upheaval	upheaval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	embargoes	embargo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	74	74	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	1978	1978	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	79	79	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **industrialis** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | past | Sweden | a period of economic decline and upheaval |  |  |  | like many industrialised countries | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme period=Destination |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund | economic decline and upheaval *not said here* | the oil embargoes of 1973 – 74 |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embargo=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, «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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