Estonia, sentence 170

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.

One of the first major acts of resistance was the Phosphorite War, an environmental protest against Soviet plans to establish large phosphate mines in Virumaa.

What happens: be, establish · To what, where: large phosphate mines, Virumaa

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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 acts	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 acts	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 acts	amod
5	major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 acts	amod
6	acts	act	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 War	case
8	resistance	resistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 War	compound
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 War	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 War	det
11	Phosphorite	Phosphorite	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 War	compound
12	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 acts	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 protest	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 protest	det
15	environmental	environmental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 protest	amod
16	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 War	appos
17	against	against	ADP	_	19 plans	case
18	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 plans	amod
19	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 protest	nmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 establish	mark
21	establish	establish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 protest	acl
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mines	amod
23	phosphate	phosphate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mines	compound
24	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 establish	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 Virumaa	case
26	Virumaa	Virumaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 mines	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 One	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						of the resistance Phosphorite War	tree rules
2	establish	to-infinitive		large phosphate mines		Virumaa			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mine=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.

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