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title: Sweden was the second Nordic country to disestablish its state churc… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: Sweden was the second Nordic country to disestablish its state church (after Finland did so in the Church Act of 1869). Who acts: Sweden, Finland. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 578

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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 was the second Nordic country to disestablish its state church (after Finland did so in the Church Act of 1869).

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**Who acts:** Sweden, Finland · **What happens:** be, disestablish, do · **To what, where:** second Nordic country, state church, Church Act

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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, Finland), 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:578
# text = Sweden was the second Nordic country to disestablish its state church (after Finland did so in the Church Act of 1869).
1	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	Nordic	Nordic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	disestablish	disestablish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1869	1869	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Sweden | the second Nordic country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **disestablish** | to-infinitive |  | country's state church |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | Finland | country's state church *not said here* |  | the Church Act of 1869 |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Eventuality |

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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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