Estonia, sentence 39
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.
In 1187, Estonians, Curonians, and Karelians sacked Sigtuna, a major Swedish city at the time.
Who acts: Estonians · What happens: sack · To what, where: Sigtuna, 1187
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 (Estonians), 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 1187 | case |
| 2 | 1187 | 1187 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 sacked | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1187 | punct |
| 4 | Estonians | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 sacked | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Curonians | punct |
| 6 | Curonians | Curonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Estonians | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Karelians | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Karelians | cc |
| 9 | Karelians | Karelian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Estonians | conj |
| 10 | sacked | sack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Sigtuna | Sigtuna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sacked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 city | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 14 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 city | amod |
| 15 | Swedish | Swedish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 city | amod |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Sigtuna | appos |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 city | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sack | past | Estonians and Curonians and Karelians | Sigtuna | 1187 | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigtuna=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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