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title: The early 20th century saw the professionalisation of Estonian theat… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: The early 20th century saw the professionalisation of Estonian theatre, with the Vanemuine in Tartu and the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn formally becoming professional institutions in 1906. Who acts: early 20th century. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 608

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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 early 20th century saw the professionalisation of Estonian theatre, with the Vanemuine in Tartu and the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn formally becoming professional institutions in 1906.

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**Who acts:** early 20th century · **What happens:** see, become · **To what, where:** professionalisation, professional institutions, 1906

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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 (early 20th century), 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:608
# text = The early 20th century saw the professionalisation of Estonian theatre, with the Vanemuine in Tartu and the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn formally becoming professional institutions in 1906.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	professionalisation	professionalisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Vanemuine	Vanemuine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Tartu	Tartu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Tallinn	Tallinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
25	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1906	1906	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the early 20th century | the professionalisation of Estonian theatre |  |  |  | with the Vanemuine in Tartu and the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer professionalisation=Stimulus |
| 2 | **become** | gerund | the early 20th century *not said here* | professional institutions |  | 1906 |  | formally *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient institution=Result |

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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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