Estonia, sentence 431

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.

German language maintained its leading position until the Russification policy of the tsarist era at the end of the 19th century, and sometimes even longer.

Who acts: German language · What happens: maintain, lead · To what, where: leading position

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 (German language), 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	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 language	amod
2	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maintained	nsubj
3	maintained	maintain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 position	nmod:poss
5	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 position	amod
6	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maintained	obj
7	until	until	ADP	_	10 policy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 policy	det
9	Russification	Russification	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 policy	compound
10	policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maintained	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 era	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 era	det
13	tsarist	tsarist	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 era	compound
14	era	era	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 policy	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 end	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 end	det
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 era	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 century	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 century	det
20	19th	19th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	21 century	amod
21	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 end	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 longer	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 longer	cc
24	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 longer	advmod
25	even	even	ADV	_	26 longer	advmod
26	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 maintained	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 maintained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	maintain	past	German language	nobility's leading position			until the Russification policy of the tsarist era at the end of the 19th century	long property	vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent position=Theme
2	lead	gerund							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

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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