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title: The epic poem Beowulf describes semi-legendary Swedish-Geatish wars… — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: The epic poem Beowulf describes semi-legendary Swedish-Geatish wars in the sixth century. Who acts: epic poem. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 58

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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 epic poem Beowulf describes semi-legendary Swedish-Geatish wars in the sixth century.

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**Who acts:** epic poem · **What happens:** describe · **To what, where:** semi-legendary Geatish wars

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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 (epic poem), 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:58
# text = The epic poem Beowulf describes semi-legendary Swedish-Geatish wars in the sixth century.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	epic	epic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Beowulf	Beowulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	semi-legendary	semi-legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	Swedish	Swedish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Geatish	geatish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | the epic poem | semi-legendary Geatish wars |  |  |  | in the sixth century | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent war=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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