Estonia, sentence 515

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 oldest form of folk songs in Estonia, known as regilaulud (runic songs), followed a distinct poetic metre shared with other Baltic Finns.

Who acts: oldest form · What happens: know, follow, share, form · To what, where: folk songs, distinct poetic metre

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 (oldest form), 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	3 form	det
2	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 form	amod
3	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 followed	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 songs	case
5	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 songs	compound
6	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 form	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Estonia	case
8	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 songs	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 known	punct
10	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 songs	acl
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 regilaulud	case
12	regilaulud	regilaulud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 known	obl
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 songs	punct
14	runic	runic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 songs	amod
15	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 regilaulud	appos
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 songs	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 form	punct
18	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 metre	det
20	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 metre	amod
21	poetic	poetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 metre	amod
22	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 followed	obj
23	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 metre	acl
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 Finns	case
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Finns	amod
26	Baltic	baltic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Finns	amod
27	Finns	finn	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shared	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	participle		folk songs in Estonia not said here	as regilaulud	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as regilaulud=Attribute
2	follow	past	the oldest form of folk songs in Estonia	a distinct poetic metre		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metre=Theme
3	share	participle		a distinct poetic metre not said here	with other Baltic Finns	tree rules
4	form			folk songs in Estonia		nom form «communication 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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