Estonia, sentence 635
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.
Fish plays a significant role: Baltic herring (räim), along with sprat (kilu), are often served in spiced forms as appetisers or sandwiches, such as the popular kiluvõileib, an open sandwich with sprats on rye bread.
Who acts: Fish · What happens: play, serve, spice · To what, where: significant role
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 (Fish), 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 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | nsubj |
| 2 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 role | det |
| 4 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 role | amod |
| 5 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 herring | punct |
| 7 | Baltic | baltic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 herring | amod |
| 8 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 role | appos |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 räim | punct |
| 10 | räim | räim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 herring | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 räim | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sprat | punct |
| 13 | along | along | ADP | _ | 15 sprat | case |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sprat | case |
| 15 | sprat | sprat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 herring | conj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 kilu | punct |
| 17 | kilu | kilu | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 sprat | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 kilu | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 served | punct |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 served | aux:pass |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 served | advmod |
| 22 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 plays | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 forms | case |
| 24 | spiced | spice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 forms | amod |
| 25 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 served | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 appetisers | case |
| 27 | appetisers | appetiser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 served | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 sandwiches | cc |
| 29 | sandwiches | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 appetisers | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 kiluvõileib | punct |
| 31 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 35 kiluvõileib | case |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 such | fixed |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 kiluvõileib | det |
| 34 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 kiluvõileib | amod |
| 35 | kiluvõileib | kiluvõileib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 appetisers | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sandwich | punct |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 sandwich | det |
| 38 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 sandwich | amod |
| 39 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 kiluvõileib | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 sprats | case |
| 41 | sprats | sprat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 sandwich | nmod |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 bread | case |
| 43 | rye | rye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bread | compound |
| 44 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sprats | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Fish | a significant role | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme | ||||
| 2 | serve | present · passive | as appetisers or sandwiches and the popular kiluvõileib and a open sandwich with sprats on rye bread; in spiced forms; often property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: in form=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | spice | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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