Estonia, sentence 54
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.
In 1217, the Estonians suffered a significant defeat in the battle where their most prominent leader, Lembitu, an elder of Sakala, was killed.
Who acts: Estonians · What happens: suffer, kill · To what, where: significant defeat, 1217, most prominent leader
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 (Estonians), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1217 | case |
| 2 | 1217 | 1217 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 suffered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1217 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Estonians | det |
| 5 | Estonians | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 suffered | nsubj |
| 6 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 defeat | det |
| 8 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 defeat | amod |
| 9 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suffered | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 battle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 battle | det |
| 12 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 defeat | nmod |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 killed | advmod |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 leader | nmod:poss |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 leader | amod |
| 16 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 leader | amod |
| 17 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Lembitu | punct |
| 19 | Lembitu | Lembitu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 leader | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 elder | punct |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 elder | det |
| 22 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Lembitu | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Sakala | case |
| 24 | Sakala | Sakala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 elder | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leader | punct |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 killed | aux:pass |
| 27 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 battle | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past | the Estonians | a significant defeat | 1217 | in the battle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer defeat=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | Estonians's most prominent leader | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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