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title: In July, the Soviets started a major offensive from the south, forci… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: In July, the Soviets started a major offensive from the south, forcing the Germans to abandon mainland Estonia in September, with the Estonian islands being abandoned in November. Who acts: Soviets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 152

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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 July, the Soviets started a major offensive from the south, forcing the Germans to abandon mainland Estonia in September, with the Estonian islands being abandoned in November.

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**Who acts:** Soviets · **What happens:** start, force, abandon · **To what, where:** major offensive, south, Germans, mainland, Estonian islands

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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 (Soviets), 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:152
# text = In July, the Soviets started a major offensive from the south, forcing the Germans to abandon mainland Estonia in September, with the Estonian islands being abandoned in November.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Soviets	Soviet	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	offensive	offensive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	forcing	force	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Germans	German	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	abandon	abandon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the Soviets | a major offensive |  | the south | july |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offensive=Eventuality |
| 2 | **force** | gerund | the Soviets *not said here* |  | the Germans |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent german=Recipient |
| 3 | **abandon** | to-infinitive | the Soviets *not said here* | mainland |  |  | september | with the Estonian islands | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme mainland=Source |
| 4 | **abandon** | gerund · passive |  | the Estonian islands *not said here* |  |  | november |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location» |

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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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