Estonia, sentence 429
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In the 12th and 13th centuries, Catholic German traders and crusaders (see Ostsiedlung) began settling in the eastern Baltic territories.
Who acts: Catholic German traders · What happens: see, begin, settle · To what, where: Ostsiedlung, 12th, eastern Baltic territories
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 (Catholic German traders), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 12th | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 12th | det |
| 3 | 12th | 12th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 17 began | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 centuries | cc |
| 5 | 13th | 13th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 6 centuries | amod |
| 6 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 12th | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 12th | punct |
| 8 | Catholic | catholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 traders | amod |
| 9 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 traders | amod |
| 10 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 began | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 crusaders | cc |
| 12 | crusaders | crusader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 traders | conj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 traders | parataxis |
| 15 | Ostsiedlung | Ostsiedlung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | settling | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 began | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 territories | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 territories | det |
| 21 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 territories | amod |
| 22 | Baltic | baltic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 territories | amod |
| 23 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 settling | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | Ostsiedlung | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ostsiedlung=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | Catholic German traders and crusaders | the 12th and 13th centuries | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | settle | gerund | Catholic German traders and crusaders not said here | the eastern Baltic territories | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in territory=Location |
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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