Estonia, sentence 30
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.
A transition from hunter-fisher subsistence to single-farm-based settlement started around 1000 BC, and was complete by around 500 BC.
Who acts: transition · What happens: base, start, be · To what, where: hunter fisher subsistence
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 (transition), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 transition | det |
| 2 | transition | transition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 started | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 subsistence | case |
| 4 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 subsistence | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunter | punct |
| 6 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 subsistence | compound |
| 7 | subsistence | subsistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 started | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 single | mark |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 settlement | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 single | punct |
| 11 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 based | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 farm | punct |
| 13 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 settlement | amod |
| 14 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 started | nsubj |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 1000 | case |
| 17 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 started | obl |
| 18 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 1000 | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 complete | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 complete | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 complete | cop |
| 22 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 started | advcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 500 | case |
| 24 | around | around | ADV | _ | 25 500 | advmod |
| 25 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 complete | obl |
| 26 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 500 | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | start | past | a transition | hunter fisher subsistence | around 1000 BC | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is | past | a transition not said here | by 500 BC; complete property | 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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