Estonia, sentence 555

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.

During the Soviet occupation, Jaan Kross became Estonia's best-known and most-translated writer, as he skillfully used historical allegory to convey the resilience of Estonian identity.

Who acts: Jaan, Estonia · What happens: become, know, translate, use, convey · To what, where: writer, historical allegory, resilience

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 (Jaan, Estonia), 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	During	during	ADP	_	4 occupation	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 occupation	det
3	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 occupation	compound
4	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 occupation	punct
6	Jaan	Jaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 became	nsubj
7	Kross	Kross	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Jaan	flat
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 best	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Estonia	case
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 became	xcomp
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 known	punct
13	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 best	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 translated	cc
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 translated	advmod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 most	punct
17	translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 known	conj
18	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 translated	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 used	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 used	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 used	nsubj
22	skillfully	skillfully	ADV	_	23 used	advmod
23	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 translated	conj
24	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 allegory	amod
25	allegory	allegory	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 used	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 convey	mark
27	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 used	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 resilience	det
29	resilience	resilience	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 convey	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 identity	case
31	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 identity	compound
32	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 resilience	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Jaan		during the Soviet occupation	good property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	know	participle					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	translate	participle		writer			vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	use	past	Estonia	historical allegory		skillfully property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allegory=Patient
5	convey	to-infinitive	Estonia not said here	the resilience of Estonian identity			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent resilience=Topic

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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Estonia, sentence 555