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title: Sweden joined the European Union in 1995, and in response to the 202… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: Sweden joined the European Union in 1995, and in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO in 2024. Who acts: Sweden. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 22

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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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Sweden joined the European Union in 1995, and in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO in 2024.

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**Who acts:** Sweden · **What happens:** join, invade · **To what, where:** European Union, 1995, Ukraine

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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:22
# text = Sweden joined the European Union in 1995, and in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO in 2024.
1	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	NATO	NATO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | Sweden | the European Union |  | 1995 |  | response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine *parataxis* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Patient |
| 2 | **invade** |  |  | Ukraine |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «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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