Estonia, sentence 76

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.

Russian forces gradually conquered the majority of Livonia, but in the late 1570s, the Polish-Lithuanian and Swedish armies started their own offensives, and the bloody war finally ended in 1583 with Russian defeat.

Who acts: Russian forces, Lithuanian armies, bloody war · What happens: conquer, start, end · To what, where: majority, own offensives, late 1570s, 1583

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 (Russian forces, Lithuanian armies, bloody war), 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	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 forces	amod
2	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 conquered	nsubj
3	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	4 conquered	advmod
4	conquered	conquer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 majority	det
6	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conquered	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Livonia	case
8	Livonia	Livonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 majority	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 started	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 started	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 1570s	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 1570s	det
13	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 1570s	amod
14	1570s	1570	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	23 started	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 1570s	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 armies	det
17	Polish	polish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Lithuanian	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Polish	punct
19	Lithuanian	lithuanian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 armies	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Swedish	cc
21	Swedish	Swedish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Lithuanian	conj
22	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 started	nsubj
23	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 conquered	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 offensives	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 offensives	amod
26	offensives	offensive	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 started	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ended	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ended	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 war	det
30	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 war	amod
31	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ended	nsubj
32	finally	finally	ADV	_	33 ended	advmod
33	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 conquered	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 1583	case
35	1583	1583	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 ended	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 defeat	case
37	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 defeat	amod
38	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ended	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 conquered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	conquer	past	Russian forces	the majority of Livonia		gradually property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majority=Patient
2	start	past	the Lithuanian armies	armies's own offensives	the late 1570s		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offensive=Eventuality
3	end	past	the bloody war		1583	with Russian defeat; finally property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with defeat=Subeventuality

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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