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title: Sweden has been inhabited since prehistoric times around 12,000 BC. — Sweden · tree and pragmatics
description: Sweden has been inhabited since prehistoric times around 12,000 BC. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sweden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sweden, sentence 8

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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 has been inhabited since prehistoric times around 12,000 BC.

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**What happens:** inhabit · **To what, where:** 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: 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:8
# text = Sweden has been inhabited since prehistoric times around 12,000 BC.
1	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	since	since	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	prehistoric	prehistoric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	around	around	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	12,000	12,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
10	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inhabit** | present · perfect · passive |  | Sweden |  |  | time | 12,000  BC *obl* | tree rules |

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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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