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title: After 1934, Ulmanis established government corporations to buy up pr… — Latvia · tree and pragmatics
description: After 1934, Ulmanis established government corporations to buy up private firms with the aim of "Latvianising" the economy. Who acts: Ulmanis, aim. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Latvia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Latvia, sentence 78

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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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After 1934, Ulmanis established government corporations to buy up private firms with the aim of "Latvianising" the economy.

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**Who acts:** Ulmanis, aim · **What happens:** establish, buy up, latvianis · **To what, where:** government corporations, private firms, economy

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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 (Ulmanis, aim), 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:78
# text = After 1934, Ulmanis established government corporations to buy up private firms with the aim of "Latvianising" the economy.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1934	1934	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Ulmanis	Ulmanis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	corporations	corporation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	firms	firm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Latvianising	latvianis	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	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 | **establish** | past | Ulmanis | government corporations |  |  | after 1934 |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corporation=Patient |
| 2 | **buy up** | to-infinitive | Ulmanis *not said here* | private firms |  |  |  | with the aim | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firm=Theme |
| 3 | **latvianis** *in a quote* | gerund | the aim *not said here* | the economy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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