Estonia, sentence 220
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.
In the early 21st century, a population of European jackals was confirmed in western Estonia, expanding their range significantly.
What happens: confirm, expand · To what, where: population, western Estonia, range
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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 century | det |
| 3 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 century | amod |
| 4 | 21st | 21st | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 5 century | amod |
| 5 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 confirmed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 century | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 population | det |
| 8 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 confirmed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 jackals | case |
| 10 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 jackals | amod |
| 11 | jackals | jackal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 population | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 13 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Estonia | case |
| 15 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Estonia | amod |
| 16 | Estonia | Estonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 confirmed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 expanding | punct |
| 18 | expanding | expand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 confirmed | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 range | nmod:poss |
| 20 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 expanding | obj |
| 21 | significantly | significantly | ADV | _ | 18 expanding | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 confirmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confirm | past · passive | a population of European jackals | western Estonia | century | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | expand | gerund | jackals's range | significantly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent range=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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