Estonia, sentence 44
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.
Very little is known about the religious beliefs of medieval Estonians prior to Christianisation.
What happens: know, believe · To what, where: little, medieval Estonians
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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 little | advmod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 beliefs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beliefs | det |
| 7 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beliefs | amod |
| 8 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 known | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Estonians | case |
| 10 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Estonians | amod |
| 11 | Estonians | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 beliefs | nmod |
| 12 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 Christianisation | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 prior | fixed |
| 14 | Christianisation | Christianisation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Estonians | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | little | about the religious beliefs of medieval Estonians prior Christianisation | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | believe | medieval Estonians prior Christianisation | nom belief «cognition transitive»: of=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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