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title: All three Baltic provinces preserved local laws, German as the local… — Latvia · tree and pragmatics
description: All three Baltic provinces preserved local laws, German as the local official language and their own parliament, the Landtag. Who acts: three Baltic provinces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Latvia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Latvia, sentence 53

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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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All three Baltic provinces preserved local laws, German as the local official language and their own parliament, the Landtag.

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**Who acts:** three Baltic provinces · **What happens:** preserve · **To what, where:** local laws

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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 (three Baltic provinces), 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:53
# text = All three Baltic provinces preserved local laws, German as the local official language and their own parliament, the Landtag.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	Baltic	baltic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Landtag	Landtag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** | past | all three Baltic provinces | local laws and the Landtag |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Beneficiary |

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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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