Tallinn, sentence 125
From Wikipedia, «Tallinn», 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.
Ethnic Russians are a significant minority in Tallinn, as around a third of the city's residents are first and second generation immigrants from Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union; a majority of the Soviet-era immigrants now hold Estonian citizenship.
Who acts: Ethnic Russians, majority · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: significant minority, Tallinn, Estonian citizenship
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tallinn». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ethnic Russians, majority), 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 | Ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Russians | amod |
| 2 | Russians | Russian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 minority | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 minority | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 minority | det |
| 5 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 minority | amod |
| 6 | minority | minority | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Tallinn | case |
| 8 | Tallinn | Tallinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 minority | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 third | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 third | case |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 third | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 third | det |
| 13 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 minority | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 residents | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 residents | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 city | case |
| 18 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 first | obl |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 first | cop |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 third | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 immigrants | cc |
| 22 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 immigrants | amod |
| 23 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 immigrants | compound |
| 24 | immigrants | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 first | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Russia | case |
| 26 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 immigrants | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 parts | cc |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 parts | amod |
| 29 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Russia | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Union | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Union | det |
| 32 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Union | amod |
| 33 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Union | compound |
| 34 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 parts | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 hold | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 majority | det |
| 37 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hold | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 immigrants | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 immigrants | det |
| 40 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 era | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Soviet | punct |
| 42 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 immigrants | compound |
| 43 | immigrants | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 majority | nmod |
| 44 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 hold | advmod |
| 45 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 minority | conj |
| 46 | Estonian | Estonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 citizenship | compound |
| 47 | citizenship | citizenship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hold | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 minority | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ethnic Russians | a significant minority | Tallinn | a third appos | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | present | of the city's residents; second generation immigrants from Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union conj; first property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold | present | a majority of the era immigrants | Estonian citizenship | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent citizenship=Theme |
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, «Tallinn», 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.
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