Estonia, sentence 157
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Legal continuity of the Estonian state was preserved through the government-in-exile and the Estonian diplomatic representatives which Western governments continued to recognise.
Who acts: Western governments · What happens: preserve, continue, recognise · To what, where: Legal continuity, exile, Estonian diplomatic representatives
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 (Western governments), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | Legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 continuity | amod |
| 2 | continuity | continuity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 state | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 state | det |
| 5 | Estonian | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 state | compound |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 continuity | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 preserved | aux:pass |
| 8 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 exile | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 exile | det |
| 11 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 exile | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 exile | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 exile | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 in | punct |
| 15 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preserved | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 representatives | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 representatives | det |
| 18 | Estonian | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 representatives | compound |
| 19 | diplomatic | diplomatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 representatives | amod |
| 20 | representatives | representative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 exile | conj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 continued | obj |
| 22 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 governments | amod |
| 23 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 continued | nsubj |
| 24 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 representatives | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 recognise | mark |
| 26 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 continued | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 preserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve | past · passive | Legal continuity of the Estonian state | the exile and the Estonian diplomatic representatives | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | Western governments | the Estonian diplomatic representatives | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | recognise | to-infinitive | Western governments not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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