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title: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonian: Pimedate Ööde Filmifes… — Tallinn · tree and pragmatics
description: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonian: Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival, or PÖFF), is an annual film festival held since 1997 in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. Who acts: Tallinn Nights Film Festival. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tallinn» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tallinn, sentence 239

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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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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonian: Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival, or PÖFF), is an annual film festival held since 1997 in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia.

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**Who acts:** Tallinn Nights Film Festival · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** annual film festival, Tallinn

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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 (Tallinn Nights Film Festival), 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:239
# text = Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonian: Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival, or PÖFF), is an annual film festival held since 1997 in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia.
1	Tallinn	Tallinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Nights	Night	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
4	Film	Film	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Festival	Festival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Pimedate	Pimedate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Ööde	Ööde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	Filmifestival	Filmifestival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	PÖFF	PÖFF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	since	since	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1997	1997	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Tallinn	Tallinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Estonia	Estonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Tallinn Nights Film Festival and Pimedate Filmifestival | a annual film festival |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  | a annual film festival *not said here* |  | Tallinn | since 1997 |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tallinn=Location |

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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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