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title: The law provides the foundations for regulating social relations in… — Lithuania · tree and pragmatics
description: The law provides the foundations for regulating social relations in the field of environmental protection, establishes the basic rights and obligations of legal and natural persons in preserving the biodiversity, ecological systems, and the landscape. Who acts: law, legal persons. A sentence of Wiki
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# Lithuania, sentence 144

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From Wikipedia, [«Lithuania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania), 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 law provides the foundations for regulating social relations in the field of environmental protection, establishes the basic rights and obligations of legal and natural persons in preserving the biodiversity, ecological systems, and the landscape.

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**Who acts:** law, legal persons · **What happens:** provide, regulate, establish, preserve · **To what, where:** foundations, social relations, field, basic rights, biodiversity

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lithuania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (law, legal persons), 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:Lithuania:144
# text = The law provides the foundations for regulating social relations in the field of environmental protection, establishes the basic rights and obligations of legal and natural persons in preserving the biodiversity, ecological systems, and the landscape.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	provides	provide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	foundations	foundation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	regulating	regulate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	environmental	environmental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	establishes	establish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	basic	basic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	obligations	obligation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	preserving	preserve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	biodiversity	biodiversity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	ecological	ecological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	systems	system	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | present | the law | the foundations |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition foundation=Theme |
| 2 | **regulate** | gerund | the law *not said here* | social relations |  | the field of environmental protection |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **establish** | present | the law *not said here* | the basic rights of legal persons and obligations |  |  |  | the landscape *parataxis* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 4 | **preserve** | gerund | legal persons *not said here* | the biodiversity |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biodiversity=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, «Lithuania», 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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