Estonia, sentence 27

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 emergence of the Corded Ware culture, which introduced primitive farming and animal husbandry, began approximately 2800 BC.

Who acts: Corded Ware culture, emergence · What happens: cord, introduce, begin, emerge · To what, where: primitive farming, 2800

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 (Corded Ware culture, emergence), 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 emergence	det
2	emergence	emergence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 culture	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 culture	det
5	Corded	cord	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 culture	amod
6	Ware	ware	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 culture	compound
7	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 emergence	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 introduced	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 introduced	nsubj
10	introduced	introduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 culture	acl:relcl
11	primitive	primitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 farming	amod
12	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 introduced	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 husbandry	cc
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 husbandry	compound
15	husbandry	husbandry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 farming	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 emergence	punct
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	19 2800	advmod
19	2800	2800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 began	obl
20	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 2800	nmod:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cord	participle			tree rules
2	introduce	past	the Corded Ware culture	primitive farming and animal husbandry	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farming=Patient
3	begin	past	the emergence of the Corded Ware culture	2800 BC	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	emerge		the Corded Ware culture		nom emergence «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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