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title: However, the central power in Moscow continued to regard Latvia as a… — Latvia · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the central power in Moscow continued to regard Latvia as a Soviet republic in 1990 and 1991. Who acts: central power. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Latvia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Latvia, sentence 126

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From Wikipedia, [«Latvia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia), 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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However, the central power in Moscow continued to regard Latvia as a Soviet republic in 1990 and 1991.

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**Who acts:** central power · **What happens:** continue, regard · **To what, where:** Latvia, 1990

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Latvia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (central power), 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:Latvia:126
# text = However, the central power in Moscow continued to regard Latvia as a Soviet republic in 1990 and 1991.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	regard	regard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	Latvia	Latvia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the central power in Moscow |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **regard** | to-infinitive | the central power in Moscow *not said here* | Latvia |  | 1990 |  | as a Soviet republic | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent latvia=Theme as republic=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, «Latvia», 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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