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title: Sweden gained Saaremaa from Denmark in 1645. — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: Sweden gained Saaremaa from Denmark in 1645. Who acts: Sweden. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 79

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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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Sweden gained Saaremaa from Denmark in 1645.

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**Who acts:** Sweden · **What happens:** gain · **To what, where:** Saaremaa, Denmark

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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 (Sweden), 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:79
# text = Sweden gained Saaremaa from Denmark in 1645.
1	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Saaremaa	Saaremaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1645	1645	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | Sweden | Saaremaa |  | Denmark |  | in 1645 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient saaremaa=Extent from denmark=Initial\_State in 1645=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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