Estonia, sentence 596

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.

After 1918, the newly independent Estonia sought to express its identity through new buildings.

Who acts: independent Estonia · What happens: seek, express · To what, where: identity, new buildings

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 (independent 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 1918	case
2	1918	1918	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 sought	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1918	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Estonia	det
5	newly	newly	ADV	_	6 independent	advmod
6	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Estonia	amod
7	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sought	nsubj
8	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 express	mark
10	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sought	xcomp
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 identity	nmod:poss
12	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 express	obj
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 buildings	case
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 buildings	amod
15	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 express	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past	the independent Estonia				after 1918		tree rules
2	express not said to happen	to-infinitive	the independent Estonia not said here	style's identity		new buildings			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=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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