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title: The general representative of Germany August Winnig formally handed… — Latvia · tree and pragmatics
description: The general representative of Germany August Winnig formally handed over political power to the Latvian provisional government on 26 November, and he became its first prime minister. Who acts: general representative, representative. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Latvia» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Latvia, sentence 71

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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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The general representative of Germany August Winnig formally handed over political power to the Latvian provisional government on 26 November, and he became its first prime minister.

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**Who acts:** general representative, representative · **What happens:** hand over, become · **To what, where:** political power, 26, first prime minister

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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 (general representative, representative), 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:71
# text = The general representative of Germany August Winnig formally handed over political power to the Latvian provisional government on 26 November, and he became its first prime minister.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	representative	representative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Winnig	Winnig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Latvian	latvian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	provisional	provisional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
20	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
27	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand over** | past | the general representative of Germany August | political power |  | 26  November |  | to the Latvian provisional government; formally *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent power=Theme to government=Destination |
| 2 | **become** | past | representative | government's first prime minister |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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