Estonia, sentence 25
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.
Raw materials like amber and flint were widely distributed through large trade networks.
What happens: distribute · To what, where: Raw materials, large trade networks
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.
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 | Raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 materials | amod |
| 2 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 distributed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 amber | case |
| 4 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 materials | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flint | cc |
| 6 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amber | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 distributed | aux:pass |
| 8 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 9 distributed | advmod |
| 9 | distributed | distribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 networks | case |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 networks | amod |
| 12 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 networks | compound |
| 13 | networks | network | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 distributed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 distributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distribute | past · passive | Raw materials like amber and flint | large trade networks | widely property | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/Estonia/25/