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title: The issue of whether Swedish should be declared the official languag… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: The issue of whether Swedish should be declared the official language had been raised in the past, and the Riksdag voted on the matter in 2005, but the proposal narrowly failed. Who acts: Riksdag, proposal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 558

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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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The issue of whether Swedish should be declared the official language had been raised in the past, and the Riksdag voted on the matter in 2005, but the proposal narrowly failed.

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**Who acts:** Riksdag, proposal · **What happens:** declare, raise, vote, fail, issue · **To what, where:** issue, official language, past, matter, Swedish · **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 (Riksdag, proposal), 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:558
# text = The issue of whether Swedish should be declared the official language had been raised in the past, and the Riksdag voted on the matter in 2005, but the proposal narrowly failed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Swedish	Swedish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Riksdag	Riksdag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	narrowly	narrowly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | should · passive |  | the issue of Swedish |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **raise** | past · perfect · passive |  | the official language |  | the past |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in past=Destination |
| 3 | **vote** | past | the Riksdag |  |  | the matter |  | in 2005 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fail** | past | the proposal |  |  |  |  | narrowly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **issue** |  |  | Swedish |  |  |  |  | nom issue «cognition transitive»: of=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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