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title: Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the count… — Latvia · tree and pragmatics
description: Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian. Who acts: Latvians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Latvia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Latvia, sentence 7

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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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Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian.

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**Who acts:** Latvians · **What happens:** be, comprise, belong, speak · **To what, where:** titular nation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Latvians), 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:7
# text = Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian.
1	Latvians	latvian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	titular	titular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	comprise	comprise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	65.5	65.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
18	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	ethnolinguistic	ethnolinguistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Balts	Balt	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	Latvian	latvian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Latvians | the titular nation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **comprise** | infinitive | Latvians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Pivot |
| 3 | **belong** | present | Latvians |  |  |  |  | to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Latvians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | latvian *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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