Estonia, sentence 174

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.

On 23 August 1989, two million people formed the Baltic Way, a human chain spanning Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, to demonstrate unity in pursuit of independence.

Who acts: million people, human chain · What happens: form, span, demonstrate, pursue · To what, where: Baltic Way, 23, Estonia, unity, pursuit, independence

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 (million people, human chain), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 23	case
2	23	23	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 formed	obl
3	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 1989	nmod:unmarked
4	1989	1989	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 23	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 23	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 million	compound
7	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 people	nummod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 formed	nsubj
9	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Way	det
11	Baltic	baltic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Way	amod
12	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 formed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 chain	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 chain	det
15	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chain	amod
16	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Way	appos
17	spanning	span	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 chain	acl
18	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 spanning	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Latvia	punct
20	Latvia	Latvia	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Estonia	flat
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Lithuania	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Lithuania	cc
23	Lithuania	Lithuania	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Estonia	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 demonstrate	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 demonstrate	mark
26	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 formed	conj
27	unity	unity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 demonstrate	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 pursuit	case
29	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 demonstrate	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 independence	case
31	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pursuit	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 formed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	form	past	million people	the Baltic Way	23 1989 August	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	span	gerund	a human chain not said here	Estonia		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme estonia=Co-Theme
3	demonstrate	to-infinitive	million people not said here	unity	pursuit of independence	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot unity=Topic
4	pursue			independence		nom pursuit «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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