Estonia, sentence 535
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.
Kalevipoeg, a mythological giant hero, is often portrayed defending the land from invaders, and many natural landmarks are said to be traces of his deeds. "
What happens: portray, defend, say, be · To what, where: Kalevipoeg, land, many natural landmarks, traces · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Kalevipoeg | Kalevipoeg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 portrayed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hero | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hero | det |
| 4 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hero | amod |
| 5 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hero | amod |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kalevipoeg | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kalevipoeg | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 portrayed | aux:pass |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 portrayed | advmod |
| 10 | portrayed | portray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | defending | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 portrayed | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 defending | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 invaders | case |
| 15 | invaders | invader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 defending | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 landmarks | amod |
| 19 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 landmarks | amod |
| 20 | landmarks | landmark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 said | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | aux:pass |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 portrayed | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 traces | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 traces | cop |
| 25 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 said | ccomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 deeds | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 28 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 traces | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 portrayed | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 portrayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | portray | present · passive | Kalevipoeg | often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | defend | gerund | the land | from invaders | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary from invader=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present · passive | many natural landmarks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | traces | of Kalevipoeg's deeds | tree rules |
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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