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title: The University of Tartu, the nation's oldest university, has ranked… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: The University of Tartu, the nation's oldest university, has ranked 285th globally according to the QS World University Rankings. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 488

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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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The University of Tartu, the nation's oldest university, has ranked 285th globally according to the QS World University Rankings.

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**What happens:** rank, accord · **To what, where:** University

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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:488
# text = The University of Tartu, the nation's oldest university, has ranked 285th globally according to the QS World University Rankings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Tartu	Tartu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	285th	285th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	13	xcomp	_	_
15	globally	globally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	QS	QS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Rankings	ranking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | present · perfect · passive |  | the University of Tartu |  |  |  | accord the University Rankings; 285th, globally *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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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