Estonia, sentence 173

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 parliament of Soviet-controlled Estonia asserted the primacy of Estonian laws with the Sovereignty Declaration on 16 November 1988, inspiring similar declarations across other Soviet republics.

Who acts: parliament · What happens: control, assert · To what, where: Estonia, primacy, 16

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 (parliament), 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 parliament	det
2	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asserted	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Soviet	case
4	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 parliament	nmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Soviet	punct
6	controlled	control	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 parliament	acl
7	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 controlled	obj
8	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 primacy	det
10	primacy	primacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asserted	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 laws	case
12	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 laws	compound
13	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 primacy	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 Declaration	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Declaration	det
16	Sovereignty	Sovereignty	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Declaration	compound
17	Declaration	Declaration	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 laws	nmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 16	case
19	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 asserted	obl
20	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 16	nmod:unmarked
21	1988	1988	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 16	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 declarations	punct
23	inspiring	inspiring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 declarations	amod
24	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 declarations	amod
25	declarations	declaration	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 asserted	obl
26	across	across	ADP	_	29 republics	case
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 republics	amod
28	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 republics	amod
29	republics	republic	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 declarations	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asserted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	control	participle	the parliament of Soviet not said here	Estonia					vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estonia=Theme
2	assert	past	the parliament of Soviet	the primacy of Estonian laws with the Sovereignty Declaration		16 November 1988		inspiring similar declarations across other Soviet republics obl	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent primacy=Theme

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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