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title: The Estonian National Day is the Independence Day, observed on 24 Fe… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Estonian National Day is the Independence Day, observed on 24 February to commemorate the 1918 Estonian Declaration of Independence. Who acts: Estonian National Day. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 509

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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 Estonian National Day is the Independence Day, observed on 24 February to commemorate the 1918 Estonian Declaration of Independence.

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**Who acts:** Estonian National Day · **What happens:** be, observe, commemorate · **To what, where:** Independence Day, 24, 1918 Estonian Declaration

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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 (Estonian National Day), 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:509
# text = The Estonian National Day is the Independence Day, observed on 24 February to commemorate the 1918 Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	commemorate	commemorate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Declaration	Declaration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Estonian National Day | the Independence Day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **observe** | participle |  | the Independence Day *not said here* |  | 24  February |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **commemorate** | to-infinitive |  | the 1918 Estonian Declaration of Independence |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent declaration=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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