Estonia, sentence 158
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 opposing the second Soviet occupation joined a guerrilla movement known as the "Forest Brothers".
Who acts: Estonians, Thousands · What happens: oppose, join, know · To what, where: second Soviet occupation, guerrilla movement
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 (Estonians, Thousands), 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 | 9 joined | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Estonians | case |
| 3 | Estonians | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 4 | opposing | oppose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Estonians | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 occupation | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 occupation | amod |
| 7 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 occupation | compound |
| 8 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opposing | obj |
| 9 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 movement | det |
| 11 | guerrilla | guerrilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 movement | compound |
| 12 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 joined | obj |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 movement | acl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 Brothers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Brothers | det |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Brothers | punct |
| 17 | Forest | Forest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Brothers | compound |
| 18 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 known | obl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Brothers | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oppose | gerund | Estonians not said here | the second Soviet occupation | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occupation=Patient | ||||
| 2 | join | past | Thousands of Estonians | a guerrilla movement | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | a guerrilla movement not said here | as the Forest Brothers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as brother=Attribute |
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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