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title: The longest river is Klarälven-Göta älv, which originates in Trøndel… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: The longest river is Klarälven-Göta älv, which originates in Trøndelag in central Norway, running 720 mi before it enters the sea at Gothenburg. Who acts: longest river, Klarälven älv, river. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 228

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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 longest river is Klarälven-Göta älv, which originates in Trøndelag in central Norway, running 720 mi before it enters the sea at Gothenburg.

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**Who acts:** longest river, Klarälven älv, river · **What happens:** be, originate, run, enter · **To what, where:** Klarälven älv, Trøndelag, 720 mi, sea, Gothenburg

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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 (longest river, Klarälven älv, river), 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:228
# text = The longest river is Klarälven-Göta älv, which originates in Trøndelag in central Norway, running 720 mi before it enters the sea at Gothenburg.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	Klarälven	Klarälven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Göta	Göta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	älv	älv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	originates	originate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Trøndelag	Trøndelag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	720	720	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	mi	mi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Gothenburg	Gothenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the longest river | Klarälven älv |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **originate** | present | Klarälven älv |  |  | Trøndelag |  | in central Norway | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | Klarälven älv *not said here* | 720 mi |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mi=Trajectory |
| 4 | **enter** | present | river | the sea |  | Gothenburg |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=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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