Estonia, sentence 83
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.
While large parts of the rural population remained in serfdom, legal reforms under King Charles XI of Sweden strengthened both serfs' and free tenant farmers' land usage and inheritance rights, resulting in this period's reputation as "The Good Old Swedish Time" in historical memory.
Who acts: legal reforms, tenant farmers, period · What happens: remain, strengthen, usage, result, repute · To what, where: rural population, serfdom, large parts, reputation
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 (legal reforms, tenant farmers, period), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 parts | mark |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parts | amod |
| 3 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 strengthened | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 population | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 population | det |
| 6 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 population | amod |
| 7 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 parts | nmod |
| 8 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 population | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 serfdom | case |
| 10 | serfdom | serfdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remained | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reforms | punct |
| 12 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reforms | amod |
| 13 | reforms | reform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 strengthened | nsubj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 Charles | case |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reforms | nmod |
| 17 | XI | XI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Charles | flat |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Sweden | case |
| 19 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 XI | nmod |
| 20 | strengthened | strengthen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 serfs | det |
| 22 | serfs | serf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 strengthened | obj |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 serfs | case |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 usage | cc |
| 25 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 usage | amod |
| 26 | tenant | tenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 farmers | compound |
| 27 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 usage | nsubj |
| 28 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 27 farmers | case |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 usage | compound |
| 30 | usage | usage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 serfs | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 rights | cc |
| 32 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rights | compound |
| 33 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 usage | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 resulting | punct |
| 35 | resulting | result | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 strengthened | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 reputation | case |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 period | det |
| 38 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 reputation | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 period | case |
| 40 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 resulting | obl |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 Time | case |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 Time | punct |
| 43 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Time | det |
| 44 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Time | amod |
| 45 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Time | amod |
| 46 | Swedish | Swedish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Time | compound |
| 47 | Time | Time | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 resulting | obl |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 Time | punct |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 memory | case |
| 50 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 memory | amod |
| 51 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 resulting | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 strengthened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | the rural population not said here | serfdom | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in serfdom=Location | ||||
| 2 | strengthen | past | legal reforms under Charles King | large parts of the rural population | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent serf=Patient | ||||
| 3 | usage | tenant farmers | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | result | gerund | legal reforms under Charles King not said here | this period's reputation | as the Good Old Swedish Time | in historical memory | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reputation=Location | ||
| 5 | repute | this period | nom reputation «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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