Estonia, sentence 86

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 beginnings of the Estonian-language public education system appeared in the 1680s, largely owing to Bengt Forselius.

Who acts: beginnings · What happens: appear, owe, begin · To what, where: 1680s, Bengt, language education system

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 (beginnings), 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 beginnings	det
2	beginnings	beginning	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 appeared	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	10 system	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 system	det
5	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 language	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Estonian	punct
7	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 system	compound
8	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 education	amod
9	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 system	compound
10	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beginnings	nmod
11	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 1680s	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 1680s	det
14	1680s	1680	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	11 appeared	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 owing	punct
16	largely	largely	ADV	_	17 owing	advmod
17	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 appeared	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Bengt	case
19	Bengt	Bengt	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 owing	obl
20	Forselius	Forselius	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Bengt	flat
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the beginnings of the language education system			the 1680s		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1680=Location
2	owe	gerund	the beginnings of the language education system not said here		Bengt		largely property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to bengt=Goal
3	begin			the language education system				nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient

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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