Estonia, sentence 71
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.
Towns were the first to embrace Protestantism in the 1520s, and by the 1530s, the majority of the landowners and rural population had adopted Lutheranism.
Who acts: Towns, 1530s · What happens: be, embrace, adopt · To what, where: Protestantism, 1520s, majority
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 (Towns, 1530s), 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 | Towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 first | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 first | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 first | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 embrace | mark |
| 6 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 first | acl |
| 7 | Protestantism | protestantism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 embrace | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1520s | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 1520s | det |
| 10 | 1520s | 1520 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 embrace | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 adopted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 adopted | cc |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 1530s | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 1530s | det |
| 15 | 1530s | 1530 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 26 adopted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 1530s | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 majority | det |
| 18 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 landowners | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 landowners | det |
| 21 | landowners | landowner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 majority | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 population | cc |
| 23 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 population | amod |
| 24 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 landowners | conj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 adopted | aux |
| 26 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 first | parataxis |
| 27 | Lutheranism | Lutheranism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 adopted | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Towns | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embrace | to-infinitive | Protestantism | the 1520s | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protestantism=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | adopt | past · perfect · passive | the 1530s | the majority of the landowners and rural population | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme lutheranism=Attribute |
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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