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title: Ethnic Russians are a significant minority in Tallinn, as around a t… — Tallinn · tree and pragmatics
description: Ethnic Russians are a significant minority in Tallinn, as around a third of the city's residents are first and second generation immigrants from Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union; a majority of the Soviet-era immigrants now hold Estonian citizenship. Who acts: Ethnic Russians, majori
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# Tallinn, sentence 125

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From Wikipedia, [«Tallinn»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn), 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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Ethnic Russians are a significant minority in Tallinn, as around a third of the city's residents are first and second generation immigrants from Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union; a majority of the Soviet-era immigrants now hold Estonian citizenship.

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**Who acts:** Ethnic Russians, majority · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** significant minority, Tallinn, Estonian citizenship

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tallinn». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ethnic Russians, majority), 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:Tallinn:125
# text = Ethnic Russians are a significant minority in Tallinn, as around a third of the city's residents are first and second generation immigrants from Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union; a majority of the Soviet-era immigrants now hold Estonian citizenship.
1	Ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Russians	Russian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Tallinn	Tallinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
23	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
44	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
45	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
46	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	citizenship	citizenship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ethnic Russians | a significant minority |  | Tallinn |  | a third *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the city's residents; second generation immigrants from Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union *conj*; first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | present | a majority of the era immigrants | Estonian citizenship |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent citizenship=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, «Tallinn», 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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