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title: The westerly winds carry moist maritime air far into continental int… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: The westerly winds carry moist maritime air far into continental interior, leading to milder temperatures in winter and cooler conditions in summer compared to the continental areas further away from the coast. Who acts: westerly winds. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree an
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# Estonia, sentence 200

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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 westerly winds carry moist maritime air far into continental interior, leading to milder temperatures in winter and cooler conditions in summer compared to the continental areas further away from the coast.

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**Who acts:** westerly winds · **What happens:** carry, lead, compare · **To what, where:** moist maritime air, continental interior, cooler conditions

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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 (westerly winds), 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:200
# text = The westerly winds carry moist maritime air far into continental interior, leading to milder temperatures in winter and cooler conditions in summer compared to the continental areas further away from the coast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	westerly	westerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	maritime	maritime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	milder	mild	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	cooler	cool	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	further	further	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | the westerly winds | moist maritime air |  | continental interior |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | the westerly winds *not said here* |  |  |  | winter | to milder temperatures | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to temperature=Patient |
| 3 | **compare** | participle |  | cooler conditions in summer *not said here* |  |  |  | to the continental areas | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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