Estonia, sentence 17
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 name Estonia (Eesti ˈeˑstʲi) has been connected to the Aesti, a people first mentioned by Roman historian Tacitus around AD 98.
What happens: connect, mention · To what, where: name, people
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: 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Estonia | Estonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 ˈeˑstʲi | punct |
| 5 | Eesti | Eesti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ˈeˑstʲi | compound |
| 6 | ˈeˑstʲi | ˈeˑstʲi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Estonia | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 ˈeˑstʲi | punct |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 connected | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 connected | aux:pass |
| 10 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Aesti | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Aesti | det |
| 13 | Aesti | Aesti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 connected | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Aesti | appos |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 mentioned | advmod |
| 18 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 people | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 historian | case |
| 20 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 historian | amod |
| 21 | historian | historian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mentioned | obl |
| 22 | Tacitus | Tacitus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 historian | appos |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 24 AD | case |
| 24 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 historian | nmod |
| 25 | 98 | 98 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 AD | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 connected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | connect | present · perfect · passive | the name | to the Aesti | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to aesti=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | mention speech: other | participle | a people not said here | by Roman historian around AD; first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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