Estonia, sentence 163
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 Soviet Union began Russification, with hundreds of thousands of Russians and people of other Soviet nationalities being induced to settle in Estonia, which eventually threatened to turn Estonians into a minority in their own land.
Who acts: Soviet Union · What happens: begin, induce, settle, threaten, turn · To what, where: Russification, people, Estonia, Estonians, minority
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 (Soviet Union), 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 Union | det |
| 2 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Union | compound |
| 3 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Russification | Russification | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hundreds | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hundreds | case |
| 8 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 began | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thousands | case |
| 10 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hundreds | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Russians | case |
| 12 | Russians | Russian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 thousands | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 people | cc |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Russians | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 nationalities | case |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 nationalities | amod |
| 17 | Soviet | soviet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 nationalities | amod |
| 18 | nationalities | nationality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 induced | obl |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 induced | aux:pass |
| 20 | induced | induce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 people | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 settle | mark |
| 22 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 induced | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Estonia | case |
| 24 | Estonia | Estonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 settle | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 threatened | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 threatened | obj |
| 27 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 28 threatened | advmod |
| 28 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Estonia | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 turn | mark |
| 30 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 threatened | xcomp |
| 31 | Estonians | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 turn | obj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 minority | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 minority | det |
| 34 | minority | minority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 turn | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 land | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 land | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 land | amod |
| 38 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 turn | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Soviet Union | Russification | with hundreds of thousands of Russians and people | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent russification=Eventuality with hundred=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | induce | gerund · passive | people not said here | of other Soviet nationalities | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | settle | to-infinitive | Estonia | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in estonia=Location | |||||
| 4 | threaten | past | Estonia | eventually property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | turn not said to happen | to-infinitive | Estonians | a minority | in Estonians's own land | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent estonian=Patient into minority=Recipient in land=Topic |
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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