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title: On 21 April 2022, Latvian Saeima passed amendments developed by the… — Latvia · tree and pragmatics
description: On 21 April 2022, Latvian Saeima passed amendments developed by the Ministry of Defence for the legislative draft Amendments to the Law on Financing of National Defence, which provide for gradual increase in the defence budget to 2.5% of the country's GDP over the course of the next three year. Who 
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# Latvia, sentence 311

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On 21 April 2022, Latvian Saeima passed amendments developed by the Ministry of Defence for the legislative draft Amendments to the Law on Financing of National Defence, which provide for gradual increase in the defence budget to 2.5% of the country's GDP over the course of the next three year.

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**Who acts:** Latvian Saeima, Financing · **What happens:** pass, develop, provide, finance · **To what, where:** amendments, 21, Financing, National Defence

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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 (Latvian Saeima, Financing), 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:311
# text = On 21 April 2022, Latvian Saeima passed amendments developed by the Ministry of Defence for the legislative draft Amendments to the Law on Financing of National Defence, which provide for gradual increase in the defence budget to 2.5% of the country's GDP over the course of the next three year.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Latvian	latvian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Saeima	Saeima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	amendments	amendment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Ministry	Ministry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Defence	Defence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	draft	draft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Amendments	amendment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Financing	financing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Defence	Defence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	provide	provide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	gradual	gradual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	budget	budget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	2.5	2.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	's	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	GDP	gdp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
47	over	over	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
52	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
53	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Latvian Saeima | amendments |  | 21  2022  April |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent amendment=Theme on 21=Destination |
| 2 | **develop** | participle |  | amendments *not said here* |  | Financing of National Defence |  | by the Ministry of Defence; for the legislative draft Amendments to the Law | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ministry=Location |
| 3 | **provide** | present | Financing of National Defence |  |  |  |  | for gradual increase in the defence budget | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for increase=Recipient |
| 4 | **finance** |  |  | National Defence |  |  |  |  | nom financing «act transitive»: of=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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