Estonia, sentence 159

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.

The armed resistance was heaviest in the first few years after the war, but Soviet authorities gradually wore it down through attrition, and resistance effectively ceased to exist in the mid-1950s.

Who acts: armed resistance, Soviet authorities · What happens: be, wear down, cease, exist · To what, where: resistance, attrition, mid-1950s

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 (armed resistance, Soviet 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 resistance	det
2	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 resistance	amod
3	resistance	resistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heaviest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heaviest	cop
5	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 years	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 years	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 years	amod
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 years	amod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heaviest	obl
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 war	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 war	det
13	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 years	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wore	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 wore	cc
16	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 authorities	amod
17	authorities	authority	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wore	nsubj
18	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	19 wore	advmod
19	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heaviest	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wore	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	19 wore	compound:prt
22	through	through	ADP	_	23 attrition	case
23	attrition	attrition	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wore	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ceased	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ceased	cc
26	resistance	resistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ceased	nsubj:pass
27	effectively	effectively	ADV	_	28 ceased	advmod
28	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 wore	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 exist	mark
30	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ceased	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 mid-1950s	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mid-1950s	det
33	mid-1950s	mid-1950	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	30 exist	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heaviest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the armed resistance			year	heavy property	tree rules
2	wear down	past	Soviet authorities	resistance	attrition		gradually property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	cease	participle · passive		resistance			effectively property	tree rules
4	exist	to-infinitive			the mid-1950s			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mid-1950=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.

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