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title: On Midsummer Eve, Estonians traditionally gather around bonfires nea… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: On Midsummer Eve, Estonians traditionally gather around bonfires near the village swing to enjoy dancing, singing, and other festivities. Who acts: Estonians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 512

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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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On Midsummer Eve, Estonians traditionally gather around bonfires near the village swing to enjoy dancing, singing, and other festivities.

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**Who acts:** Estonians · **What happens:** gather, enjoy, sing · **To what, where:** other festivities, Midsummer Eve, dancing

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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 (Estonians), 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:512
# text = On Midsummer Eve, Estonians traditionally gather around bonfires near the village swing to enjoy dancing, singing, and other festivities.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Midsummer	Midsummer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Estonians	Estonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bonfires	bonfire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
16	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | present | Estonians | other festivities |  | Midsummer Eve |  | around bonfires near the village swing; traditionally *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | Estonians *not said here* | dancing |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Estonians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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