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Estonia, sentence 169

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 introduction of perestroika by the Soviet government in 1987 enabled political activism in Estonia, sparking the Singing Revolution, a peaceful movement towards independence.

Who acts: introduction · What happens: enable, spark, introduce · To what, where: political activism, Estonia, Singing Revolution, perestroika

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 (introduction), 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

detnsubjcasenmodcasedetcompoundnmodcasenmodamodobjcaseoblpunctadvcldetcompoundobjpunctdetamodapposcasenmodpunctrootTheDETintroductionNOUNofADPperestroikaNOUNbyADPtheDETSovietPROPNgovernmentNOUNinADP1987NUMenabledVERBpoliticalADJactivismNOUNinADPEstoniaPROPN,PUNCTsparkingVERBtheDETSingingPROPNRevolutionPROPN,PUNCTaDETpeacefulADJmovementNOUNtowardsADPindependenceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 introductiondet
2introductionintroductionNOUNNumber=Sing11 enablednsubj
3ofofADP_4 perestroikacase
4perestroikaperestroikaNOUNNumber=Sing2 introductionnmod
5bybyADP_8 governmentcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 governmentdet
7SovietSovietPROPNNumber=Sing8 governmentcompound
8governmentgovernmentNOUNNumber=Sing4 perestroikanmod
9ininADP_10 1987case
1019871987NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card2 introductionnmod
11enabledenableVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12politicalpoliticalADJDegree=Pos13 activismamod
13activismactivismNOUNNumber=Sing11 enabledobj
14ininADP_15 Estoniacase
15EstoniaEstoniaPROPNNumber=Sing11 enabledobl
16,,PUNCT_17 sparkingpunct
17sparkingsparkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 enabledadvcl
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 Revolutiondet
19SingingSingingPROPNNumber=Sing20 Revolutioncompound
20RevolutionRevolutionPROPNNumber=Sing17 sparkingobj
21,,PUNCT_24 movementpunct
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 movementdet
23peacefulpeacefulADJDegree=Pos24 movementamod
24movementmovementNOUNNumber=Sing20 Revolutionappos
25towardstowardsADP_26 independencecase
26independenceindependenceNOUNNumber=Sing24 movementnmod
27..PUNCT_11 enabledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1enablepastthe introduction of perestroika by the Soviet government in 1987political activismEstoniatree rules
2sparkgerundthe introduction of perestroika by the Soviet government in 1987 not said herethe Singing Revolutionvn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition revolution=Patient
3introduceperestroika by the Soviet governmentnom introduction «act transitive»: of=patient

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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