--- title: While Estonia, along with Lithuania, Poland, and Latvia, considered… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics description: While Estonia, along with Lithuania, Poland, and Latvia, considered participating in the construction of the Visaginas nuclear power plant in Lithuania, the project faced delays and challenges, prompting Eesti Energia to shift its focus to shale oil production, viewed as more profitable. 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While Estonia, along with Lithuania, Poland, and Latvia, considered participating in the construction of the Visaginas nuclear power plant in Lithuania, the project faced delays and challenges, prompting Eesti Energia to shift its focus to shale oil production, viewed as more profitable. **Who acts:** Estonia, project, plant · **What happens:** consider, participate, face, prompt, shift, view · **To what, where:** delays, Eesti, focus, shale oil production, nuclear power plant 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, project, plant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:357 # text = While Estonia, along with Lithuania, Poland, and Latvia, considered participating in the construction of the Visaginas nuclear power plant in Lithuania, the project faced delays and challenges, prompting Eesti Energia to shift its focus to shale oil production, viewed as more profitable. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 Estonia Estonia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 along along ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Lithuania Lithuania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Poland Poland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Latvia Latvia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 considered consider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 participating participate VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 construction construction NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 Visaginas Visagina PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 nuclear nuclear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Lithuania Lithuania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 faced face VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 30 delays delay NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 challenges challenge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 prompting prompt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 35 Eesti Eesti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 Energia Energia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 shift shift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 focus focus NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 shale shale NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 43 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 production production NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 viewed view VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 47 as as SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 48 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 49 advmod _ _ 49 profitable profitable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consider** | past | Estonia | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **participate** | gerund | Estonia *not said here* | | | | | in the construction of the nuclear power plant Visaginas in Lithuania | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in construction=Theme | | 3 | **face** | past | the project | delays and challenges | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme delay=Destination | | 4 | **prompt** | gerund | the project *not said here* | Eesti | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition eesti=Patient | | 5 | **shift** | to-infinitive | the project *not said here* | plant's focus | | shale oil production | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent focus=Theme to production=Destination | | 6 | **view** | participle | the project *not said here* | | | | | profitable *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **construct** | | | the nuclear power plant Visaginas in Lithuania | | | | | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **focus** | | plant | | | | | | nom focus «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 356](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Estonia/356/) - next →: [sentence 358](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Estonia/358/) - ↑ back to [Estonia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Estonia/)