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title: Directly subordinated to the Chief of Defence are the Special Operat… — Lithuania · tree and pragmatics
description: Directly subordinated to the Chief of Defence are the Special Operations Forces and Military Police. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lithuania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lithuania, sentence 280

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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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Directly subordinated to the Chief of Defence are the Special Operations Forces and Military Police.

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**What happens:** subordinate, be · **To what, where:** subordinated Special Operations Forces

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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: 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:280
# text = Directly subordinated to the Chief of Defence are the Special Operations Forces and Military Police.
1	Directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	subordinated	subordinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Defence	Defence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Operations	Operation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	Forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **subordinate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the Chief of Defence; directly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the subordinated Special Operations Forces and Military Police |  |  |  | Military Police *conj* | 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, «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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