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title: There are no official statistics on ethnicity, but according to Stat… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: There are no official statistics on ethnicity, but according to Statistics Sweden, 2,752,572 (26%) inhabitants of Sweden were of a foreign background in 2021, defined as being born abroad or born in Sweden with both foreign-born parents. Who acts: official statistics, 2,752,572 % inhabitants. A sent
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# Sweden, sentence 546

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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 are no official statistics on ethnicity, but according to Statistics Sweden, 2,752,572 (26%) inhabitants of Sweden were of a foreign background in 2021, defined as being born abroad or born in Sweden with both foreign-born parents.

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**Who acts:** official statistics, 2,752,572 % inhabitants · **What happens:** be, accord, define, bear · **To what, where:** 2021, foreign background, Sweden

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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 (official statistics, 2,752,572 % inhabitants), 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:546
# text = There are no official statistics on ethnicity, but according to Statistics Sweden, 2,752,572 (26%) inhabitants of Sweden were of a foreign background in 2021, defined as being born abroad or born in Sweden with both foreign-born parents.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	statistics	statistic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ethnicity	ethnicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
10	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	case	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	Statistics	Statistics	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
13	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	2,752,572	2,752,572	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	background	background	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	defined	define	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	_
35	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
41	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det:predet	_	_
42	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
45	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | no official statistics on ethnicity |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | 2,752,572 % inhabitants of Sweden |  |  | 2021 |  | of a foreign background; accord Statistics | tree rules |
| 4 | **define** | participle |  | a foreign background *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **bear** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 6 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  | Sweden |  | with both born parents | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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