Estonia, sentence 34
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 Estonian coast was a key trade hub situated on a major waterway, making it both a target and a starting point for numerous raids.
Who acts: Estonian coast · What happens: be, situate, make · To what, where: key trade hub, major waterway, coast
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 (Estonian coast), 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 | 3 coast | det |
| 2 | Estonian | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 coast | compound |
| 3 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hub | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hub | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hub | det |
| 6 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hub | amod |
| 7 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hub | compound |
| 8 | hub | hub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hub | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 waterway | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 waterway | det |
| 12 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 waterway | amod |
| 13 | waterway | waterway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 situated | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 making | punct |
| 15 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hub | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 making | obj |
| 17 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 19 target | cc:preconj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 target | det |
| 19 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 making | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 point | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 point | det |
| 22 | starting | starting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 point | compound |
| 23 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 target | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 raids | case |
| 25 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 raids | amod |
| 26 | raids | raid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 point | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hub | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Estonian coast | a key trade hub | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | situate | participle | a key trade hub not said here | a major waterway | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on waterway=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the Estonian coast not said here | coast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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