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title: Sweden joined the International Energy Agency in 1974, after the 197… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: Sweden joined the International Energy Agency in 1974, after the 1973 oil crisis strengthened Sweden's commitment to decrease dependence on imported fossil fuels. Who acts: Sweden, 1973 oil crisis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 422

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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 International Energy Agency in 1974, after the 1973 oil crisis strengthened Sweden's commitment to decrease dependence on imported fossil fuels.

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**Who acts:** Sweden, 1973 oil crisis · **What happens:** join, strengthen, decrease · **To what, where:** International Energy Agency, 1974, commitment, dependence, imported fossil fuels

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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, 1973 oil crisis), 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:422
# text = Sweden joined the International Energy Agency in 1974, after the 1973 oil crisis strengthened Sweden's commitment to decrease dependence on imported fossil fuels.
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	6	det	_	_
4	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Energy	Energy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Agency	Agency	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
13	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	commitment	commitment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	decrease	decrease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	dependence	dependence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	imported	imported	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	fuels	fuel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	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 International Energy Agency |  | 1974 |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agency=Patient |
| 2 | **strengthen** | past | the 1973 oil crisis | Sweden's commitment |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent commitment=Patient |
| 3 | **decrease** | to-infinitive | the 1973 oil crisis *not said here* | dependence |  | imported fossil fuels |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer dependence=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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