Estonia, sentence 532
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.
While much of Estonia's ancient mythology is scattered across fragments of oral tradition, some of the oldest myths are believed to have survived in traditional runic songs.
What happens: scatter, believe, survive · To what, where: much, fragments, some, traditional runic songs
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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 scattered | mark |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mythology | case |
| 4 | Estonia | Estonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mythology | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Estonia | case |
| 6 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mythology | amod |
| 7 | mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 much | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 scattered | aux:pass |
| 9 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 believed | advcl |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 fragments | case |
| 11 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scattered | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tradition | case |
| 13 | oral | oral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tradition | amod |
| 14 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fragments | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scattered | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 myths | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 myths | det |
| 19 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 myths | amod |
| 20 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 some | nmod |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 believed | aux:pass |
| 22 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 survived | mark |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 survived | aux |
| 25 | survived | survive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 believed | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 songs | case |
| 27 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 songs | amod |
| 28 | runic | runic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 songs | amod |
| 29 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 survived | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | present · passive | much of Estonia's ancient mythology | fragments of oral tradition | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | believe | present · passive | some | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | survive | to-infinitive · perfect | traditional runic songs | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in song=Location |
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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