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title: However, the stream is very small, and some find it improbable that… — Lithuania · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the stream is very small, and some find it improbable that such a small and localized body of water could have lent its name to an entire nation. Who acts: stream, some, area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lithuania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lithuania, sentence 26

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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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However, the stream is very small, and some find it improbable that such a small and localized body of water could have lent its name to an entire nation.

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**Who acts:** stream, some, area · **What happens:** be, find, localize, lend, name · **To what, where:** area, small body

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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 (stream, some, area), 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:26
# text = However, the stream is very small, and some find it improbable that such a small and localized body of water could have lent its name to an entire nation.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	improbable	improbable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	localized	localize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	lent	lend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the stream |  |  |  |  | however, small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present | some | area |  |  |  | improbable *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **localize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lend** | could · perfect · passive |  | such small body of water |  |  |  | to a entire nation; area's name *obj* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=Theme |
| 5 | **name** |  | area |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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