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title: In May 2023, the parliament elected Edgars Rinkēvičs as new Presiden… — Latvia · tree and pragmatics
description: In May 2023, the parliament elected Edgars Rinkēvičs as new President of Latvia, making him the European Union's first openly gay head of state. Who acts: parliament. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Latvia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Latvia, sentence 151

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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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In May 2023, the parliament elected Edgars Rinkēvičs as new President of Latvia, making him the European Union's first openly gay head of state.

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**Who acts:** parliament · **What happens:** elect, make · **To what, where:** Edgars, first gay head, parliament

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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 (parliament), 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:151
# text = In May 2023, the parliament elected Edgars Rinkēvičs as new President of Latvia, making him the European Union's first openly gay head of state.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	elected	elect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Edgars	edgar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	Rinkēvičs	Rinkēvičs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Latvia	Latvia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
23	openly	openly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elect** | past | the parliament | Edgars |  |  | may | as new President of Latvia | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent edgar=Theme as president=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the parliament *not said here* | the European Union's first gay head of state | parliament |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary head=Product |

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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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