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title: Although they are distinct from "standard" (North) Estonian, they ar… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: Although they are distinct from "standard" (North) Estonian, they are typically regarded as dialects or regional forms of Estonian, rather than separate languages. Who acts: dialects. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 471

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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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Although they are distinct from "standard" (North) Estonian, they are typically regarded as dialects or regional forms of Estonian, rather than separate languages.

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**Who acts:** dialects · **What happens:** be, regard, form · **To what, where:** standard, dialects, Estonian

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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 (dialects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Estonia:471
# text = Although they are distinct from "standard" (North) Estonian, they are typically regarded as dialects or regional forms of Estonian, rather than separate languages.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	typically	typically	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dialects	dialect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	29	cc	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | dialects *= dialect* |  |  | standard |  | North *obl*; distinct *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **regard** | present · passive |  | dialects *= dialect* |  |  |  | as dialects or regional forms of Estonian rather separate languages; typically *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as dialect=Value |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | Estonian |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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