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title: Estonia issued its first private TV licences in 1992 and launched it… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: Estonia issued its first private TV licences in 1992 and launched its first private radio station in 1990. Who acts: Estonia, part. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 628

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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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Estonia issued its first private TV licences in 1992 and launched its first private radio station in 1990.

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**Who acts:** Estonia, part · **What happens:** issue, launch, licence · **To what, where:** first private TV licences, 1992, first private radio station, 1990

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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 (Estonia, part), 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:628
# text = Estonia issued its first private TV licences in 1992 and launched its first private radio station in 1990.
1	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
5	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	licences	licence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1992	1992	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
14	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | past | Estonia | part's first private TV licences |  | 1992 |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location licence=Theme |
| 2 | **launch** | past | Estonia *not said here* | part's first private radio station |  | 1990 |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent station=Theme in 1990=Destination |
| 3 | **licence** |  | part |  |  |  |  |  | nom licence «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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