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title: The constitution was partly suspended by Ulmanis after his coup in 1… — Latvia · tree and pragmatics
description: The constitution was partly suspended by Ulmanis after his coup in 1934 but reaffirmed in 1990. Who acts: Ulmanis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Latvia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Latvia, sentence 79

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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 constitution was partly suspended by Ulmanis after his coup in 1934 but reaffirmed in 1990.

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**Who acts:** Ulmanis · **What happens:** suspend, reaffirm · **To what, where:** constitution, 1990

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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), 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:79
# text = The constitution was partly suspended by Ulmanis after his coup in 1934 but reaffirmed in 1990.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ulmanis	Ulmanis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1934	1934	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	reaffirmed	reaffirm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suspend** | past · passive | Ulmanis | the constitution |  |  | after Ulmanis's coup in 1934 | partly *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reaffirm** | past | Ulmanis *not said here* |  |  | 1990 |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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