Estonia, sentence 152

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.

In July, the Soviets started a major offensive from the south, forcing the Germans to abandon mainland Estonia in September, with the Estonian islands being abandoned in November.

Who acts: Soviets · What happens: start, force, abandon · To what, where: major offensive, south, Germans, mainland, Estonian islands

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	In	in	ADP	_	2 July	case
2	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 started	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 July	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Soviets	det
5	Soviets	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 started	nsubj
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 offensive	det
8	major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 offensive	amod
9	offensive	offensive	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 started	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 south	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 south	det
12	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 started	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 forcing	punct
14	forcing	force	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 started	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Germans	det
16	Germans	German	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 forcing	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 abandon	mark
18	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 forcing	advcl
19	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 abandon	obj
20	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 mainland	appos
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 September	case
22	September	September	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 abandon	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 islands	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 islands	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 islands	det
26	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 islands	compound
27	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 abandon	obl
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 abandoned	aux:pass
29	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 islands	acl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 November	case
31	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 abandoned	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the Soviets	a major offensive		the south	july		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offensive=Eventuality
2	force	gerund	the Soviets not said here		the Germans				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent german=Recipient
3	abandon	to-infinitive	the Soviets not said here	mainland			september	with the Estonian islands	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme mainland=Source
4	abandon	gerund · passive		the Estonian islands not said here			november		vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Estonia», 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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