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title: Amber, fossilized tree resin, is one of Latvia's most important cult… — Latvia · tree and pragmatics
description: Amber, fossilized tree resin, is one of Latvia's most important cultural symbols. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Latvia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Latvia, sentence 218

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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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Amber, fossilized tree resin, is one of Latvia's most important cultural symbols.

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**What happens:** fossilize, be · **To what, where:** one, fossilized tree resin

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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: 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:218
# text = Amber, fossilized tree resin, is one of Latvia's most important cultural symbols.
1	Amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	fossilized	fossilize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	resin	resin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	Latvia	Latvia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	symbols	symbol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fossilize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | one |  |  |  | of Latvia's important cultural symbols | tree rules |

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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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