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title: The Tsarist government responded with a brutal crackdown; some 500 p… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tsarist government responded with a brutal crackdown; some 500 people were executed and hundreds more jailed or deported to Siberia. Who acts: Tsarist government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 108

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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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The Tsarist government responded with a brutal crackdown; some 500 people were executed and hundreds more jailed or deported to Siberia.

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**Who acts:** Tsarist government · **What happens:** respond, execute, jail, deport · **To what, where:** 500 people, hundreds, Siberia

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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 (Tsarist government), 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:108
# text = The Tsarist government responded with a brutal crackdown; some 500 people were executed and hundreds more jailed or deported to Siberia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Tsarist	Tsarist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	brutal	brutal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	crackdown	crackdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	jailed	jail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	deported	deport	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Siberia	Siberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | the Tsarist government |  |  |  |  | with a brutal crackdown | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with crackdown=Eventuality |
| 2 | **execute** | past · passive |  | some 500 people |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **jail** | participle · passive |  | hundreds |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **deport** | participle |  |  | Siberia |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to siberia=Destination |

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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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