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title: Christmas (jõulud) is also deeply cherished in Estonia, its traditio… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: Christmas (jõulud) is also deeply cherished in Estonia, its traditions blending ancient winter solstice customs with Christian and modern holiday practices. Who acts: Christmas, traditions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 513

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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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Christmas (jõulud) is also deeply cherished in Estonia, its traditions blending ancient winter solstice customs with Christian and modern holiday practices.

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**Who acts:** Christmas, traditions · **What happens:** cherish, blend · **To what, where:** traditions, Estonia, ancient solstice customs

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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 (Christmas, traditions), 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:513
# text = Christmas (jõulud) is also deeply cherished in Estonia, its traditions blending ancient winter solstice customs with Christian and modern holiday practices.
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	jõulud	jõulud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	cherished	cherish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	blending	blend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	solstice	solstice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	practices	practice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cherish** | present · passive | Christmas | jõulud's traditions |  | Estonia |  | deeply *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **blend** | gerund | jõulud's traditions *not said here* | ancient solstice customs |  |  |  | with Christian holiday practices | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent custom=Patient with practice=Co-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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