Estonia, sentence 237

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 president, Estonia's head of state, plays a mostly ceremonial role, representing the nation internationally and holding the power to proclaim or veto laws passed by the Parliament.

Who acts: president · What happens: play, represent, hold, proclaim, veto, pass · To what, where: ceremonial role, nation, power, laws

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 (president), 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 president	det
2	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plays	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct
4	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Estonia	case
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 president	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 state	case
8	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 president	punct
10	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 role	det
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	13 ceremonial	advmod
13	ceremonial	ceremonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 role	amod
14	role	role	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plays	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 representing	punct
16	representing	represent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 plays	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nation	det
18	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 representing	obj
19	internationally	internationally	ADV	_	16 representing	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 holding	cc
21	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 representing	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 power	det
23	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 holding	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 proclaim	mark
25	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 holding	xcomp
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 veto	cc
27	veto	veto	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 proclaim	conj
28	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 veto	obj
29	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 laws	acl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 Parliament	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Parliament	det
32	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 passed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 plays	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	present	the president	a ceremonial role		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme
2	represent	gerund	the president not said here	the nation	internationally property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nation=Theme
3	hold	gerund	the president not said here	the power		tree rules
4	proclaim	to-infinitive	the president not said here			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	veto	infinitive	the president not said here	laws		tree rules
6	pass	participle		laws not said here	by the Parliament	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by parliament=Location

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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