Estonia, sentence 145

From Wikipedia, «Estonia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

The Soviets evacuated Tallinn by sea in late August 1941, suffering massive losses in the process.

Who acts: Soviets · What happens: evacuate, suffer · To what, where: Tallinn, massive losses, process

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Estonia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soviets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Soviets	det
2	Soviets	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 evacuated	nsubj
3	evacuated	evacuate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tallinn	Tallinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 evacuated	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 sea	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evacuated	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 August	case
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 August	amod
9	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 evacuated	obl
10	1941	1941	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 August	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 suffering	punct
12	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 evacuated	advcl
13	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 losses	amod
14	losses	loss	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 suffering	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 process	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 process	det
17	process	process	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 suffering	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 evacuated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	evacuate	past	the Soviets	Tallinn			august	by sea	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tallinn=Theme
2	suffer	gerund	the Soviets not said here	massive losses		the process			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus

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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