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title: The unicameral Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, has 141 members el… — Lithuania · tree and pragmatics
description: The unicameral Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, has 141 members elected to four-year terms: 71 in single-member constituencies, and the others in a nationwide vote by proportional representation. Who acts: unicameral Lithuanian parliament, proportional representation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Li
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# Lithuania, sentence 189

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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 unicameral Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, has 141 members elected to four-year terms: 71 in single-member constituencies, and the others in a nationwide vote by proportional representation.

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**Who acts:** unicameral Lithuanian parliament, proportional representation · **What happens:** have, elect, vote · **To what, where:** 141 members

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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 (unicameral Lithuanian parliament, proportional representation), 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:189
# text = The unicameral Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, has 141 members elected to four-year terms: 71 in single-member constituencies, and the others in a nationwide vote by proportional representation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	unicameral	unicameral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Lithuanian	lithuanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Seimas	Seimas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	141	141	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	constituencies	constituency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	nationwide	nationwide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	proportional	proportional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the unicameral Lithuanian parliament | 141 members |  |  |  | the others in a nationwide vote by proportional representation *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Patient |
| 2 | **elect** | participle |  | 141 members *not said here* |  |  |  | to four year terms | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to term=Attribute |
| 3 | **vote** |  | proportional representation |  |  |  |  |  | nom vote «act transitive»: by=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, «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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