Estonia, sentence 478
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.
However, during World War II, most Swedish speakers fled to Sweden ahead of the Soviet occupation in 1944, leaving only a small number of elderly Swedish speakers in Estonia.
Who acts: most Swedish speakers · What happens: flee, leave · To what, where: Sweden, 1944, small number
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 (most Swedish speakers), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 11 fled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | during | during | ADP | _ | 4 World | case |
| 4 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fled | obl |
| 5 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 World | flat |
| 6 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 5 War | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 World | punct |
| 8 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 speakers | amod |
| 9 | Swedish | Swedish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 speakers | amod |
| 10 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fled | nsubj |
| 11 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Sweden | case |
| 13 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fled | obl |
| 14 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 11 fled | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 occupation | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 occupation | det |
| 17 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 occupation | compound |
| 18 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ahead | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1944 | case |
| 20 | 1944 | 1944 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 fled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leaving | punct |
| 22 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 fled | advcl |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 number | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 number | det |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 number | amod |
| 26 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leaving | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 speakers | case |
| 28 | elderly | elderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 speakers | amod |
| 29 | Swedish | Swedish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 speakers | amod |
| 30 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 number | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Estonia | case |
| 32 | Estonia | Estonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 speakers | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | most Swedish speakers | Sweden | 1944 | during World | ahead, however property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sweden=Initial_Location | |
| 2 | leave | gerund | most Swedish speakers not said here | a small number of elderly Swedish speakers in Estonia | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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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