Estonia, sentence 96

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.

In 1857 Johann Voldemar Jannsen started publishing the first successful Estonian-language weekly newspaper, and began popularising the denomination of oneself as eestlane (Estonian).

Who acts: Johann · What happens: start, publish, begin, popularis · To what, where: 1857, first successful Estonian language, denomination

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 (Johann), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1857	case
2	1857	1857	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 started	obl
3	Johann	Johann	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 started	nsubj
4	Voldemar	Voldemar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Johann	flat
5	Jannsen	Jannsen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Johann	flat
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	publishing	publish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 started	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 language	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 language	amod
10	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 language	amod
11	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 language	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Estonian	punct
13	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 publishing	obj
14	weekly	weekly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 newspaper	amod
15	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 language	list
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 started	conj
19	popularising	popularis	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 began	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 denomination	det
21	denomination	denomination	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 popularising	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 oneself	case
23	oneself	oneself	PRON	PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 denomination	nmod
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 eestlane	case
25	eestlane	eestlane	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 popularising	obl
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 Estonian	punct
27	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 eestlane	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 Estonian	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past	Johann		1857		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	publish	gerund	Johann not said here	the first successful Estonian language			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Result
3	begin	past	Johann not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	popularis	gerund	Johann not said here	the denomination of oneself		as eestlane	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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