Estonia, sentence 82

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.

Initially, it brought Protestant puritans who opposed traditional Estonian beliefs and practices, leading to witch trials and bans on folk music.

Who acts: era, Protestant puritans · What happens: bring, oppose, lead, witch · To what, where: Protestant puritans, traditional Estonian beliefs, trials, folk music

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 (era, Protestant puritans), 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	Initially	initially	ADV	_	4 brought	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Initially	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Protestant	protestant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 puritans	amod
6	puritans	puritan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brought	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 opposed	nsubj
8	opposed	oppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 puritans	acl:relcl
9	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beliefs	amod
10	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 beliefs	compound
11	beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 opposed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 practices	cc
13	practices	practice	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 beliefs	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 leading	punct
15	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 brought	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 witch	mark
17	witch	witch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 leading	xcomp
18	trials	trial	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 witch	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bans	cc
20	bans	ban	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 trials	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 music	case
22	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 music	compound
23	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 witch	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	era	Protestant puritans		initially property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent puritan=Theme
2	oppose	past	Protestant puritans	traditional Estonian beliefs and practices			vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belief=Patient
3	lead	gerund	era not said here				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
4	witch	to-infinitive	era not said here	trials and bans	folk music		tree rules

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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