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title: In January 2011, the Baltic states were invited to join Nordic Defen… — Latvia · tree and pragmatics
description: In January 2011, the Baltic states were invited to join Nordic Defence Cooperation, the defence framework of the Nordic countries. Who acts: Baltic states. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Latvia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Latvia, sentence 309

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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 January 2011, the Baltic states were invited to join Nordic Defence Cooperation, the defence framework of the Nordic countries.

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**Who acts:** Baltic states · **What happens:** invite, join · **To what, where:** Baltic states, Nordic Cooperation

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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 (Baltic states), 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:309
# text = In January 2011, the Baltic states were invited to join Nordic Defence Cooperation, the defence framework of the Nordic countries.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Baltic	baltic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	Nordic	Nordic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Defence	Defence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	Cooperation	cooperation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	framework	framework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Nordic	nordic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | past · passive |  | the Baltic states |  |  | january |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **join** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Baltic states *not said here* | Nordic Cooperation |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooperation=Patient |

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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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