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title: The war and plague again devastated the population of Estonia, with… — Estonia · tree and pragmatics
description: The war and plague again devastated the population of Estonia, with the 1712 population estimated at only 150,000–170,000. Who acts: war. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Estonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Estonia, sentence 89

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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 war and plague again devastated the population of Estonia, with the 1712 population estimated at only 150,000–170,000.

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**Who acts:** war · **What happens:** devastate, estimate · **To what, where:** population, 1712 population, 150,000

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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 (war), 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:89
# text = The war and plague again devastated the population of Estonia, with the 1712 population estimated at only 150,000–170,000.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	devastated	devastate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	1712	1712	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	150,000	150000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	170,000	170,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devastate** | past | the war and plague | the population of Estonia |  |  | again | with the 1712 population | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent population=Patient with population=Instrument |
| 2 | **estimate** | participle |  | the 1712 population *not said here* |  | 150,000 – 170,000 |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at 150000=Value |

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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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