Estonia, sentence 160
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 Soviets initiated a policy of collectivisation, but as farmers remained opposed to it a campaign of terror was unleashed.
Who acts: Soviets, terror · What happens: initiate, oppose, unleash, campaign · To what, where: policy, collectivisation, campaign
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, terror), 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 | 2 Soviets | det |
| 2 | Soviets | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 initiated | nsubj |
| 3 | initiated | initiate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 policy | det |
| 5 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 initiated | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 collectivisation | case |
| 7 | collectivisation | collectivisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 policy | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 opposed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 opposed | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 remained | mark |
| 11 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 remained | nsubj |
| 12 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 opposed | aux:pass |
| 13 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 initiated | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 opposed | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 campaign | det |
| 17 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 unleashed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 terror | case |
| 19 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 campaign | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 unleashed | aux:pass |
| 21 | unleashed | unleash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 opposed | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 initiated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | initiate | past | the Soviets | a policy of collectivisation | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent policy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | oppose | past · passive | collectivisation | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | unleash | past · passive | a campaign of terror | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | campaign | terror | nom campaign «event intransitive»: of=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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