Estonia, sentence 80

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 wars cut the population of Estonia from about 250–270,000 people in the mid-16th century to 115–120,000 in the 1630s.

Who acts: wars · What happens: cut · To what, where: population, 1630s

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 (wars), 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 wars	det
2	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 population	det
5	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Estonia	case
7	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 population	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	13 people	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 250	advmod
10	250	250	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 people	nummod
11	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	12 270,000	case
12	270,000	270,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 250	nmod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 century	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 century	det
16	mid-16th	mid-16th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	17 century	amod
17	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 115	case
19	115	115	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 cut	obl
20	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	21 120,000	case
21	120,000	120000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 115	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 1630s	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 1630s	det
24	1630s	1630	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 cut	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the wars	the population of Estonia		the 1630s	century	from 250 people; to 115 – 120,000 result	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Causer population=Patient from people=Initial_State to 115=Result

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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