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title: Before World War II, around 80% of the population of Estonian were P… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: Before World War II, around 80% of the population of Estonian were Protestants, and the vast majority Lutheran, followed by Eastern Orthodoxy, also by Baptists and other Protestant branches. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 458

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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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Before World War II, around 80% of the population of Estonian were Protestants, and the vast majority Lutheran, followed by Eastern Orthodoxy, also by Baptists and other Protestant branches.

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**What happens:** be, follow · **To what, where:** Protestants, vast majority

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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: 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:458
# text = Before World War II, around 80% of the population of Estonian were Protestants, and the vast majority Lutheran, followed by Eastern Orthodoxy, also by Baptists and other Protestant branches.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	around	around	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	Protestants	Protestant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	Lutheran	Lutheran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Orthodoxy	Orthodoxy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Baptists	Baptist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	Protestant	protestant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Protestants |  |  |  | the vast majority *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  | the vast majority *not said here* |  |  |  | Eastern Orthodoxy and Baptists and other Protestant branches *obl:agent* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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