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title: In March 2005, an opinion poll showed that 83% supported maintaining… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: In March 2005, an opinion poll showed that 83% supported maintaining or increasing nuclear power. Who acts: opinion poll. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 428

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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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In March 2005, an opinion poll showed that 83% supported maintaining or increasing nuclear power.

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**Who acts:** opinion poll · **What happens:** show, support, maintain, increase · **To what, where:** nuclear power · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (opinion poll), 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:428
# text = In March 2005, an opinion poll showed that 83% supported maintaining or increasing nuclear power.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	83	83	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
13	maintaining	maintain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
16	nuclear	nuclear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | a opinion poll |  |  |  | march |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **support** | participle · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **maintain** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **increase** | gerund |  | nuclear power |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer power=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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