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title: There was also considerable participation in expeditions westwards,… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: There was also considerable participation in expeditions westwards, which are commemorated on stones such as the England runestones. Who acts: considerable participation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 45

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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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There was also considerable participation in expeditions westwards, which are commemorated on stones such as the England runestones.

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**Who acts:** considerable participation · **What happens:** be, commemorate · **To what, where:** considerable participation, stones

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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 (considerable participation), 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:45
# text = There was also considerable participation in expeditions westwards, which are commemorated on stones such as the England runestones.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	participation	participation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	expeditions	expedition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	westwards	westwards	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	commemorated	commemorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	runestones	runestone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | considerable participation in expeditions |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **commemorate** | present · passive |  | considerable participation in expeditions |  | stones such the England runestones |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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