Estonia, sentence 148

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.

German occupation authorities initially started recruiting men into volunteer units, but forced conscription was instituted in 1943, eventually leading to formation of the Estonian Waffen-SS division.

Who acts: German occupation authorities · What happens: start, recruit, force, institute, lead · To what, where: men, volunteer units, forced conscription, 1943

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 (German occupation authorities), 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	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 authorities	amod
2	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 authorities	compound
3	authorities	authority	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 started	nsubj
4	initially	initially	ADV	_	5 started	advmod
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	recruiting	recruit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 started	xcomp
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 recruiting	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 units	case
9	volunteer	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 units	compound
10	units	unit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 recruiting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 instituted	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 instituted	cc
13	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 conscription	amod
14	conscription	conscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 instituted	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 instituted	aux:pass
16	instituted	institute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 started	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 1943	case
18	1943	1943	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 instituted	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 leading	punct
20	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	21 leading	advmod
21	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 instituted	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 formation	case
23	formation	formation	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leading	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	30 division	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 division	det
26	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 division	compound
27	Waffen	Waffen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Estonian	flat
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Estonian	punct
29	SS	ss	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 division	compound
30	division	division	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 formation	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past	German occupation authorities			initially property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	recruit	gerund	German occupation authorities not said here	men	volunteer units		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	force	participle					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	institute	past · passive		forced conscription	1943		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	lead	gerund				to formation of the Estonian SS division; eventually property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to formation=Patient

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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