Estonia, sentence 205

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.

Prevailing winds are westerly, southwesterly, and southerly, the average annual wind speed varies between 2.1 m/s and 6.1 m/s, being smaller inland and the largest on the west coast.

Who acts: Prevailing winds, average annual wind speed · What happens: prevail, be, vary · To what, where: west coast

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 (Prevailing winds, average annual wind speed), 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	Prevailing	prevail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 winds	amod
2	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 westerly	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 westerly	cop
4	westerly	westerly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 southwesterly	punct
6	southwesterly	southwesterly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 westerly	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 varies	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 varies	cc
9	southerly	southerly	ADV	_	16 varies	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 southerly	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 speed	det
12	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 speed	amod
13	annual	annual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 speed	amod
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speed	compound
15	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 varies	nsubj
16	varies	vary	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 westerly	conj
17	between	between	ADP	_	19 m/s	case
18	2.1	2.1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 m/s	nummod
19	m/s	m/	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 varies	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 m/s	cc
21	6.1	6.1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	22 m/s	nummod
22	m/s	m/	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 m/s	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 smaller	punct
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 smaller	cop
25	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 varies	advcl
26	inland	inland	ADV	_	25 smaller	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 largest	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 largest	det
29	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 smaller	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 coast	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 coast	det
32	west	west	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 coast	amod
33	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 largest	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 westerly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	prevail	gerund				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Prevailing winds		westerly property	tree rules
3	be		Prevailing winds not said here			tree rules
4	vary	present	the average annual wind speed		between 2.1 m/s and 6.1 m/s; southerly property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	is	gerund	the average annual wind speed not said here		inland, small property	tree rules
6	be		the average annual wind speed not said here	the west coast		tree rules

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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