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title: Hundreds of people were executed and, on 14 June 1941, c. 11,000 Est… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: Hundreds of people were executed and, on 14 June 1941, c. 11,000 Estonians were deported to Russia, where most would be killed. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 140

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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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Hundreds of people were executed and, on 14 June 1941, c. 11,000 Estonians were deported to Russia, where most would be killed.

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**What happens:** execute, deport, kill · **To what, where:** Hundreds, 11,000 Estonians, Russia, most

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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: 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:140
# text = Hundreds of people were executed and, on 14 June 1941, c. 11,000 Estonians were deported to Russia, where most would be killed.
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
11	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	c.	c.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	dep	_	_
14	11,000	11,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	Estonians	Estonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	deported	deport	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
22	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **execute** | past · passive |  | Hundreds of people |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **deport** | past · passive |  | 11,000 Estonians | Russia |  | june |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to russia=Destination |
| 3 | **kill** | would · passive |  | most |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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