Estonia, sentence 489

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.

The roots of formal education in Estonia can be traced back to the 13th and 14th centuries, with the establishment of the first monastic and cathedral schools.

What happens: trace back, establish · To what, where: roots, first monastic

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.

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roots	det
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 traced	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 education	case
4	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 education	amod
5	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roots	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Estonia	case
7	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 education	nmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 traced	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 traced	aux:pass
10	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 traced	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	17 centuries	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 centuries	det
14	13th	13th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	17 centuries	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 14th	cc
16	14th	14th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	14 13th	conj
17	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 traced	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 establishment	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 establishment	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 establishment	det
21	establishment	establishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 traced	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 monastic	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 monastic	det
24	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 monastic	amod
25	monastic	monastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 establishment	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 schools	cc
27	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 schools	compound
28	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 monastic	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 traced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trace back	can · passive		the roots of formal education in Estonia			century	with the establishment of the first monastic and cathedral schools	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	establish			the first monastic and cathedral schools					nom establishment «act 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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