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title: In the late 1890s, prominent figures like Jaan Tõnisson and Konstant… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: In the late 1890s, prominent figures like Jaan Tõnisson and Konstantin Päts rose in a new surge of nationalism. Who acts: prominent figures, nationalism. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 103

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From Wikipedia, [«Estonia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In the late 1890s, prominent figures like Jaan Tõnisson and Konstantin Päts rose in a new surge of nationalism.

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**Who acts:** prominent figures, nationalism · **What happens:** rise, surge · **To what, where:** late 1890s

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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 (prominent figures, nationalism), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Estonia:103
# text = In the late 1890s, prominent figures like Jaan Tõnisson and Konstantin Päts rose in a new surge of nationalism.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	1890s	1890	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Jaan	Jaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Tõnisson	Tõnisson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Konstantin	Konstantin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	Päts	Päts	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	surge	surge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	nationalism	nationalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | prominent figures like Jaan and Konstantin |  |  | the late 1890s |  | in a new surge of nationalism | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1890=Location |
| 2 | **surge** |  | nationalism |  |  |  |  |  | nom surge «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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**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.

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