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title: The history of cinematographic film production in Estonia started in… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: The history of cinematographic film production in Estonia started in 1908 with a newsreel documenting a visit to Tallinn by then King Gustav V of Sweden. Who acts: history, newsreel. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 615

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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 history of cinematographic film production in Estonia started in 1908 with a newsreel documenting a visit to Tallinn by then King Gustav V of Sweden.

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**Who acts:** history, newsreel · **What happens:** start, document · **To what, where:** Gustav V, 1908, visit

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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 (history, newsreel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Estonia:615
# text = The history of cinematographic film production in Estonia started in 1908 with a newsreel documenting a visit to Tallinn by then King Gustav V of Sweden.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	cinematographic	cinematographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1908	1908	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	newsreel	newsreel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	documenting	document	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Tallinn	Tallinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Gustav	Gustav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	V	V	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the history of cinematographic film production in Estonia | Gustav V of Sweden |  | 1908 |  | with a newsreel | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with newsreel=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **document** | gerund | a newsreel *not said here* | a visit |  |  |  | to Tallinn | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=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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