Estonia, sentence 32
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.
During the Iron Age, the local iron production began around 200 BC; north Estonia, particularly the coastal region of Virumaa, emerged as a trade hub.
Who acts: local iron production · What happens: begin, emerge · To what, where: 200, coastal region
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 (local iron production), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 Age | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Age | det |
| 3 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Age | compound |
| 4 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 began | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Age | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 production | det |
| 7 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 production | amod |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 production | compound |
| 9 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | around | around | ADV | _ | 12 200 | advmod |
| 12 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 began | obl |
| 13 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 200 | flat |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Estonia | punct |
| 15 | north | north | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Estonia | amod |
| 16 | Estonia | Estonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 began | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 region | punct |
| 18 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 21 region | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 region | det |
| 20 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 region | amod |
| 21 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Estonia | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Virumaa | case |
| 23 | Virumaa | Virumaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 region | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 emerged | punct |
| 25 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 region | acl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 hub | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hub | det |
| 28 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hub | compound |
| 29 | hub | hub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 emerged | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the local iron production | 200 | during the Iron Age | north Estonia obl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | emerge | participle | the coastal region of Virumaa not said here | as a trade hub | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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