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title: Towns in medieval Estonia developed around central marketplaces with… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: Towns in medieval Estonia developed around central marketplaces with street networks forming cohesive "old towns". Who acts: Towns, street networks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 590

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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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Towns in medieval Estonia developed around central marketplaces with street networks forming cohesive "old towns".

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**Who acts:** Towns, street networks · **What happens:** develop, form · **To what, where:** central marketplaces, cohesive old towns

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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 (Towns, street networks), 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:590
# text = Towns in medieval Estonia developed around central marketplaces with street networks forming cohesive "old towns".
1	Towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	medieval	medieval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	developed	develop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	marketplaces	marketplace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	networks	network	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	forming	form	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	cohesive	cohesive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | past | Towns in medieval Estonia |  |  | central marketplaces with street networks |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around marketplace=Location |
| 2 | **form** | gerund | street networks *not said here* | cohesive old towns |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=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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