Estonia, sentence 605
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By 1784, the German playwright August von Kotzebue helped establish an amateur theatre in Tallinn, and five years later, the Estonian language made its debut on stage in Kotzebue's play The Father's Expectation.
Who acts: German playwright, Estonian language, theatre, Kotzebue, Father · What happens: help, establish, make, debut, play, expect · To what, where: amateur theatre, Tallinn, debut, stage
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 (German playwright, Estonian language, theatre, Kotzebue), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 1784 | case |
| 2 | 1784 | 1784 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 helped | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1784 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 playwright | det |
| 5 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 playwright | amod |
| 6 | playwright | playwright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 helped | nsubj |
| 7 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 playwright | appos |
| 8 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 7 August | flat |
| 9 | Kotzebue | Kotzebue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 von | flat |
| 10 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 helped | xcomp |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 theatre | det |
| 13 | amateur | amateur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 theatre | compound |
| 14 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 establish | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Tallinn | case |
| 16 | Tallinn | Tallinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 theatre | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 19 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 later | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 made | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 later | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 language | det |
| 24 | Estonian | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 language | compound |
| 25 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | nsubj |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 helped | conj |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 debut | nmod:poss |
| 28 | debut | debut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 stage | case |
| 30 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 play | case |
| 32 | Kotzebue | Kotzebue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 play | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 Kotzebue | case |
| 34 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stage | nmod |
| 35 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Father | det |
| 36 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Expectation | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 Father | case |
| 38 | Expectation | expectation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 play | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | the German playwright | by 1784 | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | establish | infinitive | the German playwright not said here | a amateur theatre | Tallinn | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theatre=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | past | the Estonian language | theatre's debut | stage in Kotzebue's play the Father's Expectation | late property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset debut=Product | ||
| 4 | debut | theatre | nom debut «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | play | Kotzebue | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | expect | the Father | nom expectation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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