Estonia, sentence 590
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.
Towns in medieval Estonia developed around central marketplaces with street networks forming cohesive "old towns".
Who acts: Towns, street networks · What happens: develop, form · To what, where: central marketplaces, cohesive old towns
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 (Towns, street networks), 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 | Towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 developed | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Estonia | case |
| 3 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Estonia | amod |
| 4 | Estonia | Estonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Towns | nmod |
| 5 | developed | develop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 marketplaces | case |
| 7 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 marketplaces | amod |
| 8 | marketplaces | marketplace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 developed | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 networks | case |
| 10 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 networks | compound |
| 11 | networks | network | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 marketplaces | nmod |
| 12 | forming | form | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 networks | acl |
| 13 | cohesive | cohesive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 towns | amod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 towns | punct |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 towns | amod |
| 16 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forming | obj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 towns | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 developed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | develop | past | Towns in medieval Estonia | central marketplaces with street networks | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around marketplace=Location | ||||
| 2 | form | gerund | street networks not said here | cohesive old towns | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=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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