Estonia, sentence 33
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.
North Estonian settlers gradually moved into nearby areas in the Baltic Sea region, spreading the Proto-Finnic language.
Who acts: North settlers · What happens: move, spread · To what, where: nearby areas, Finnic language
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 (North settlers), 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 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 settlers | compound |
| 2 | Estonian | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 North | flat |
| 3 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 5 moved | advmod |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 areas | case |
| 7 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 areas | amod |
| 8 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moved | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 region | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 region | det |
| 11 | Baltic | Baltic | PROPN | _ | 12 Sea | compound |
| 12 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 region | compound |
| 13 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spreading | punct |
| 15 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 moved | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 language | det |
| 17 | Proto | Proto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Finnic | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Proto | punct |
| 19 | Finnic | Finnic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 language | compound |
| 20 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spreading | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | North settlers | nearby areas | in the Sea region; gradually property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into area=Source in region=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | spread | gerund | North settlers not said here | the Finnic language | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location language=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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