Estonia, sentence 65

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.

For the subsequent centuries, Low German remained the language of the ruling elite in both Estonian cities and the countryside.

Who acts: Low German, language · What happens: remain, rule · To what, where: language

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 (Low German, language), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 centuries	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 centuries	det
3	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 centuries	amod
4	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 remained	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 centuries	punct
6	Low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 German	amod
7	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 remained	nsubj
8	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 language	det
10	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remained	obj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 ruling	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ruling	det
13	ruling	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 language	acl
14	elite	elite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ruling	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 cities	case
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 cities	det
17	Estonian	estonian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cities	amod
18	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 elite	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 countryside	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 countryside	det
21	countryside	countryside	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cities	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	Low German	the language			century		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme language=Attribute
2	rule	gerund	the language not said here					elite property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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