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title: Estonia's railway network, primarily operated by the state-owned Ees… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: Estonia's railway network, primarily operated by the state-owned Eesti Raudtee, encompasses over 2,000 km, including the 209.6 km Tallinn–Narva line, which also serves as a link to St. Petersburg. Who acts: railway network, Narva line. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and
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# Estonia, sentence 318

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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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Estonia's railway network, primarily operated by the state-owned Eesti Raudtee, encompasses over 2,000 km, including the 209.6 km Tallinn–Narva line, which also serves as a link to St. Petersburg.

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**Who acts:** railway network, Narva line · **What happens:** operate, own, encompass, serve · **To what, where:** railway network, 2,000 km

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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 (railway network, Narva line), 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:318
# text = Estonia's railway network, primarily operated by the state-owned Eesti Raudtee, encompasses over 2,000 km, including the 209.6 km Tallinn–Narva line, which also serves as a link to St. Petersburg.
1	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	operated	operate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	Eesti	Eesti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
14	Raudtee	Raudtee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	encompasses	encompass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	including	including	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	209.6	209.6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Tallinn	Tallinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Narva	Narva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	also	also	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	link	link	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:desc	_	_
38	Petersburg	Petersburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **operate** | participle |  | Estonia's railway network *not said here* |  |  |  | primarily *property* | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **own** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **encompass** | present | Estonia's railway network | 2,000 km |  |  |  | including km Tallinn | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot km=Theme |
| 4 | **serve** | present | Narva line |  |  |  |  | as a link to Petersburg  St. | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as link=Attribute |

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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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