Estonia, sentence 37
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In c. 1030, Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise of Kievan Rus' attempted to subjugate the Chuds (as East Slavic sources called Estonians and related Finnic tribes) in southeast Estonia and captured Tartu.
What happens: attempt, subjugate, call, capture · To what, where: Kievan Rus, Chuds, southeast, East Slavic sources, Tartu · Speech: someone speaks here
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 c. | case |
| 2 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Yaroslav | obl |
| 3 | 1030 | 1030 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 c. | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 c. | punct |
| 5 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Yaroslav | amod |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Yaroslav | compound |
| 7 | Yaroslav | Yaroslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wise | det |
| 9 | Wise | Wise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Yaroslav | flat |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Rus | case |
| 11 | Kievan | Kievan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rus | compound |
| 12 | Rus | Rus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Wise | nmod |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rus | punct |
| 14 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Rus | acl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 subjugate | mark |
| 16 | subjugate | subjugate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 attempted | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Chuds | det |
| 18 | Chuds | chud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 subjugate | obj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 sources | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 sources | case |
| 21 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sources | compound |
| 22 | Slavic | slavic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sources | amod |
| 23 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Chuds | appos |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 sources | acl |
| 25 | Estonians | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 called | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tribes | cc |
| 27 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tribes | amod |
| 28 | Finnic | Finnic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 tribes | compound |
| 29 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sources | conj |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 sources | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 southeast | case |
| 32 | southeast | Southeast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 subjugate | obl |
| 33 | Estonia | Estonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 southeast | flat |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 captured | cc |
| 35 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 attempted | conj |
| 36 | Tartu | Tartu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 captured | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yaroslav | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | participle | Kievan Rus not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | subjugate not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Chuds | southeast | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chud=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | East Slavic sources and related Finnic tribes not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | capture | past | Tartu | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tartu=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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