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title: Meanwhile, largely isolated from the rest of Latvia, southern Latgal… — Latvia · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, largely isolated from the rest of Latvia, southern Latgallians adopted Catholicism under Polish/Jesuit influence. Who acts: southern Latgallians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Latvia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Latvia, sentence 46

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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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Meanwhile, largely isolated from the rest of Latvia, southern Latgallians adopted Catholicism under Polish/Jesuit influence.

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**Who acts:** southern Latgallians · **What happens:** isolate, adopt · **To what, where:** rest, Catholicism, Polish/Jesuit influence

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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 (southern Latgallians), 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:46
# text = Meanwhile, largely isolated from the rest of Latvia, southern Latgallians adopted Catholicism under Polish/Jesuit influence.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	isolated	isolate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Latvia	Latvia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Latgallians	Latgallian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	Catholicism	Catholicism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Polish/Jesuit	Polish/Jesuit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **isolate** | participle |  |  |  | the rest of Latvia |  | largely, meanwhile *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from rest=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **adopt** | past | southern Latgallians | Catholicism |  | Polish/Jesuit influence |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catholicism=Theme |

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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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