Estonia, sentence 520

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.

By the 14th century, organs were common in Estonian churches, while secular musicians played instruments like the torupill and drums at community gatherings.

Who acts: organs, secular musicians · What happens: be, play · To what, where: Estonian churches, instruments, community gatherings

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 (organs, secular musicians), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 century	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 century	det
3	14th	14th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	4 century	amod
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 common	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 century	punct
6	organs	organ	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 common	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 common	cop
8	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 churches	case
10	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 churches	compound
11	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 common	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 played	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 played	mark
14	secular	secular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 musicians	amod
15	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 played	nsubj
16	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 common	conj
17	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 played	obj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 torupill	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 torupill	det
20	torupill	torupill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 instruments	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drums	cc
22	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 instruments	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 gatherings	case
24	community	community	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gatherings	compound
25	gatherings	gathering	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 played	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 common	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	organs			Estonian churches	century	common property	tree rules
2	play	past	secular musicians	instruments and drums		community gatherings		like the torupill	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=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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