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title: A significant portion of the sector consists of micro-enterprises, w… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: A significant portion of the sector consists of micro-enterprises, with 78% of manufacturing firms employing fewer than 10 workers, while only 3% of companies have more than 100 employees (totaling 215 firms). Who acts: significant portion, manufacturing firms, 100 employees. A sentence of Wikipedia
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# Estonia, sentence 387

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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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A significant portion of the sector consists of micro-enterprises, with 78% of manufacturing firms employing fewer than 10 workers, while only 3% of companies have more than 100 employees (totaling 215 firms).

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**Who acts:** significant portion, manufacturing firms, 100 employees · **What happens:** consist, employ, have, total · **To what, where:** 10 workers, 100 employees, 215 firms

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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 (significant portion, manufacturing firms, 100 employees), 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:387
# text = A significant portion of the sector consists of micro-enterprises, with 78% of manufacturing firms employing fewer than 10 workers, while only 3% of companies have more than 100 employees (totaling 215 firms).
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	micro-enterprises	micro-enterpris	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	78	78	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	manufacturing	manufacturing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	firms	firm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	employing	employ	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	32	advmod	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	employees	employee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	totaling	total	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
36	215	215	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	firms	firm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | a significant portion of the sector |  |  |  |  | of micro-enterprises | tree rules |
| 2 | **employ** | gerund | manufacturing firms *not said here* | 10 workers |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | 100 employees |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employee=Patient |
| 4 | **total** | gerund | 100 employees *not said here* | 215 firms |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firm=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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