Estonia, sentence 75

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.

The majority of Livonia accepted Polish rule, while Reval and the nobles of Northern Estonia swore loyalty to the Swedish king, and the Bishop of Ösel-Wiek sold his lands to the Danish king.

Who acts: majority, Reval, Bishop · What happens: accept, swear, sell · To what, where: Polish rule, loyalty, lands, Danish king

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 (majority, Reval, Bishop), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 majority	det
2	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 accepted	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Livonia	case
4	Livonia	Livonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 majority	nmod
5	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Polish	polish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rule	amod
7	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 accepted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 swore	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 swore	mark
10	Reval	Reval	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 swore	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nobles	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nobles	det
13	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Reval	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Estonia	case
15	Northern	Northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Estonia	amod
16	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 nobles	nmod
17	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accepted	parataxis
18	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swore	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 king	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
21	Swedish	Swedish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 king	amod
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swore	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sold	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sold	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Bishop	det
26	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sold	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Ösel	case
28	Ösel	Ösel	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Bishop	nmod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Wiek	punct
30	Wiek	Wiek	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Bishop	conj
31	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accepted	parataxis
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 lands	nmod:poss
33	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sold	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 king	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 king	det
36	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 king	amod
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sold	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	accept	past	the majority of Livonia	Polish rule			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
2	swear	past	Reval and the nobles of Northern Estonia	loyalty		to the Swedish king	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent loyalty=Eventuality
3	sell	past	the Bishop of Ösel and Wiek	Livonia's lands	the Danish king		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Theme to king=Recipient

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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