Estonia, sentence 41

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.

Northern and western coastal areas maintained close connections with Scandinavia, while the inland had stronger ties to the Balts and the principality of Pskov.

Who acts: Northern coastal areas, inland · What happens: maintain, have · To what, where: close connections, stronger ties

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 (Northern coastal areas, inland), 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	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 areas	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 western	cc
3	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Northern	conj
4	coastal	coastal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 areas	amod
5	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 maintained	nsubj
6	maintained	maintain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 connections	amod
8	connections	connection	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 maintained	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 Scandinavia	case
10	Scandinavia	Scandinavia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 connections	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 inland	det
14	inland	inland	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 maintained	conj
16	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 ties	amod
17	ties	tie	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Balts	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Balts	det
20	Balts	Balt	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 ties	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 principality	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 principality	det
23	principality	principality	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Balts	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Pskov	case
25	Pskov	Pskov	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 principality	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 maintained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	maintain	past	Northern coastal areas	close connections				with Scandinavia	vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent connection=Theme
2	have	past	the inland	stronger ties				to the Balts and the principality of Pskov	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=Patient

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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