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title: Towns were the first to embrace Protestantism in the 1520s, and by t… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: Towns were the first to embrace Protestantism in the 1520s, and by the 1530s, the majority of the landowners and rural population had adopted Lutheranism. Who acts: Towns, 1530s. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 71

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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 were the first to embrace Protestantism in the 1520s, and by the 1530s, the majority of the landowners and rural population had adopted Lutheranism.

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**Who acts:** Towns, 1530s · **What happens:** be, embrace, adopt · **To what, where:** Protestantism, 1520s, majority

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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, 1530s), 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:71
# text = Towns were the first to embrace Protestantism in the 1520s, and by the 1530s, the majority of the landowners and rural population had adopted Lutheranism.
1	Towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	Protestantism	protestantism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	1520s	1520	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	1530s	1530	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	landowners	landowner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
27	Lutheranism	Lutheranism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Towns |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **embrace** | to-infinitive |  | Protestantism |  | the 1520s |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protestantism=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **adopt** | past · perfect · passive | the 1530s | the majority of the landowners and rural population |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme lutheranism=Attribute |

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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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