Estonia, sentence 149
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.
Thousands of Estonians escaped to Finland, where many volunteered to fight together with Finns against Soviets.
Who acts: Thousands, many · What happens: escape, volunteer, fight · To what, where: Finland
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 (Thousands, many), 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 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 escaped | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Estonians | case |
| 3 | Estonians | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 4 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Finland | case |
| 6 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 escaped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 volunteered | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 volunteered | nsubj |
| 10 | volunteered | volunteer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 escaped | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fight | mark |
| 12 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 volunteered | xcomp |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 fight | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Finns | case |
| 15 | Finns | finn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fight | obl |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 Soviets | case |
| 17 | Soviets | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 Finns | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | Thousands of Estonians | Finland | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to finland=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | volunteer | past | many | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | many not said here | with Finns against Soviets; together property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with finn=Co-Agent |
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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