Estonia, sentence 8

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 medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last pagan civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianity following the Northern Crusades in the 13th century.

Who acts: medieval indigenous population · What happens: be, adopt, follow · To what, where: one, Christianity

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 (medieval indigenous population), 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	4 population	det
2	medieval	medieval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 population	amod
3	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 population	amod
4	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Estonia	case
6	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 population	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 civilisations	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 civilisations	det
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 civilisations	amod
12	pagan	pagan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 civilisations	amod
13	civilisations	civilisation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Europe	case
15	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 civilisations	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 adopt	mark
17	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 one	advcl
18	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 adopt	obj
19	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 Crusades	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Crusades	det
21	Northern	Northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Crusades	amod
22	Crusades	Crusade	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 Christianity	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 century	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 century	det
25	13th	13th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	26 century	amod
26	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 adopt	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the medieval indigenous population of Estonia	one		of the last pagan civilisations in Europe	tree rules
2	adopt	to-infinitive	the medieval indigenous population of Estonia not said here	Christianity	century	follow the Northern Crusades	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christianity=Theme
3	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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