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title: In June 1919, Estonia defeated the German Landeswehr which had attem… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: In June 1919, Estonia defeated the German Landeswehr which had attempted to dominate Latvia. Who acts: Estonia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 116

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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 June 1919, Estonia defeated the German Landeswehr which had attempted to dominate Latvia.

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**Who acts:** Estonia · **What happens:** defeat, attempt, dominate · **To what, where:** German Landeswehr, Latvia

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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 (Estonia), 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:116
# text = In June 1919, Estonia defeated the German Landeswehr which had attempted to dominate Latvia.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	1919	1919	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Landeswehr	Landeswehr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	dominate	dominate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	Latvia	Latvia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defeat** | past | Estonia |  |  |  | june |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attempt** | past · perfect · passive |  | the German Landeswehr |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dominate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Latvia |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme latvia=Co-Theme |

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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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