---
title: In Germania 44 and 45 he mentions the Swedes (Suiones) as a powerful… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: In Germania 44 and 45 he mentions the Swedes (Suiones) as a powerful tribe with ships that had a prow at each end (longships). Who acts: Germania, powerful tribe. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sweden/33/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Sweden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sweden/) / 33

# Sweden, sentence 33

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In Germania 44 and 45 he mentions the Swedes (Suiones) as a powerful tribe with ships that had a prow at each end (longships).

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Germania, powerful tribe · **What happens:** mention, have · **To what, where:** Swedes, Germania, prow, end

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Germania, powerful tribe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:33
# text = In Germania 44 and 45 he mentions the Swedes (Suiones) as a powerful tribe with ships that had a prow at each end (longships).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Germania	Germania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mentions	mention	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Swedes	swede	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Suiones	suione	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	longships	longship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | present | Germania | the Swedes |  | Germania |  | as a powerful tribe with ships | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swede=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | a powerful tribe with ships | a prow |  |  | at each end |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prow=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sweden/32/)
- next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sweden/34/)
- ↑ back to [Sweden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sweden/)