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title: Their routes passed through the Dnieper south to Constantinople, on… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: Their routes passed through the Dnieper south to Constantinople, on which they carried out numerous raids. Who acts: routes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 40

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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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Their routes passed through the Dnieper south to Constantinople, on which they carried out numerous raids.

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**Who acts:** routes · **What happens:** pass, carry out · **To what, where:** Constantinople, Dnieper, numerous raids

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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 (routes), 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:40
# text = Their routes passed through the Dnieper south to Constantinople, on which they carried out numerous raids.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	south	south	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	raids	raid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Vikings's routes |  | Constantinople | the Dnieper |  | south *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through dnieper=Initial\_Location to constantinople=Destination |
| 2 | **carry out** | past | routes *= route* | numerous raids |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raid=Eventuality |

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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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