Estonia, sentence 71
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.
Towns were the first to embrace Protestantism in the 1520s, and by the 1530s, the majority of the landowners and rural population had adopted Lutheranism.
Who acts: Towns, 1530s · What happens: be, embrace, adopt · To what, where: Protestantism, 1520s, majority
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 (Towns, 1530s), 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 | Towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 first | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 first | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 first | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 embrace | mark |
| 6 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 first | acl |
| 7 | Protestantism | protestantism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 embrace | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1520s | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 1520s | det |
| 10 | 1520s | 1520 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 embrace | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 adopted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 adopted | cc |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 1530s | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 1530s | det |
| 15 | 1530s | 1530 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 26 adopted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 1530s | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 majority | det |
| 18 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 landowners | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 landowners | det |
| 21 | landowners | landowner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 majority | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 population | cc |
| 23 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 population | amod |
| 24 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 landowners | conj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 adopted | aux |
| 26 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 first | parataxis |
| 27 | Lutheranism | Lutheranism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 adopted | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Towns | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embrace | to-infinitive | Protestantism | the 1520s | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protestantism=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | adopt | past · perfect · passive | the 1530s | the majority of the landowners and rural population | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme lutheranism=Attribute |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Estonia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Estonia/71/