Estonia, sentence 153
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.
As German forces were retreating from Tallinn, the last pre-war prime minister Jüri Uluots appointed a government headed by Otto Tief in an unsuccessful attempt to restore Estonia's independence.
Who acts: German forces, Jüri · What happens: retreat, appoint, head, restore · To what, where: Tallinn, government, unsuccessful attempt, independence
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 forces, Jüri), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 retreating | mark |
| 2 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 forces | amod |
| 3 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 retreating | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 retreating | aux |
| 5 | retreating | retreat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 appointed | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Tallinn | case |
| 7 | Tallinn | Tallinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 retreating | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 retreating | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 minister | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 minister | amod |
| 11 | pre-war | pre-war | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 minister | amod |
| 12 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 minister | amod |
| 13 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Jüri | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Jüri | Jüri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 appointed | nsubj |
| 15 | Uluots | Uluots | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Jüri | flat |
| 16 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 government | det |
| 18 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appointed | obj |
| 19 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 government | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Otto | case |
| 21 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 headed | obl:agent |
| 22 | Tief | Tief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Otto | flat |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 attempt | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 attempt | det |
| 25 | unsuccessful | unsuccessful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 attempt | amod |
| 26 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 headed | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 restore | mark |
| 28 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 attempt | acl |
| 29 | Estonia | Estonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 independence | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Estonia | case |
| 31 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 restore | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retreat | past · progressive | German forces | Tallinn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tallinn=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | appoint | past | Jüri the last pre-war prime minister | a government | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Theme | ||||
| 3 | head | participle | a government not said here | a unsuccessful attempt | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | restore | to-infinitive | Estonia's independence | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
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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