Estonia, sentence 607
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.
However, a distinctly Estonian theatre culture began to take shape with the development of song and drama societies, including the landmark 1870 performance of Lydia Koidula's Cousin from Saaremaa by the Vanemuine Cultural Society, which marked the birth of Estonian national theatre.
Who acts: distinctly Estonian theatre culture, Cultural Society · What happens: begin, take, mark, develop, perform · To what, where: shape, birth, song, Cousin
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 (distinctly Estonian theatre culture, Cultural Society), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 began | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 culture | det |
| 4 | distinctly | distinctly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 culture | amod |
| 5 | Estonian | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 culture | compound |
| 6 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 culture | compound |
| 7 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 development | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 development | det |
| 14 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 song | case |
| 16 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 development | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 societies | cc |
| 18 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 societies | compound |
| 19 | societies | society | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 development | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 landmark | punct |
| 21 | including | including | ADP | _ | 23 landmark | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 landmark | det |
| 23 | landmark | landmark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 24 | 1870 | 1870 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 performance | nummod |
| 25 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 landmark | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Cousin | case |
| 27 | Lydia | Lydia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Koidula | compound |
| 28 | Koidula | Koidula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Cousin | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Koidula | case |
| 30 | Cousin | Cousin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 performance | nmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 Saaremaa | case |
| 32 | Saaremaa | Saaremaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Cousin | nmod |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 Society | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Society | det |
| 35 | Vanemuine | Vanemuine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Cultural | compound |
| 36 | Cultural | Cultural | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Society | compound |
| 37 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 marked | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 marked | nsubj |
| 40 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 Society | acl:relcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 birth | det |
| 42 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 marked | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 theatre | case |
| 44 | Estonian | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 theatre | compound |
| 45 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 theatre | amod |
| 46 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 birth | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | a distinctly Estonian theatre culture | however property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | a distinctly Estonian theatre culture not said here | shape | with the development of song and drama societies; including the landmark and 1870 performance of Lydia Koidula's Cousin from Saaremaa; by the Cultural Society | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | |||
| 3 | mark | past | the Cultural Society | the birth of Estonian national theatre | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent birth=Destination | ||||
| 4 | develop | song | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | perform | Lydia Koidula's Cousin from Saaremaa | nom performance «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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