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title: Between 2004 and 2016, one of five Lithuanians emigrated, seeking be… — Lithuania · tree and pragmatics
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# Lithuania, sentence 319

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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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Between 2004 and 2016, one of five Lithuanians emigrated, seeking better opportunities and higher salaries abroad.

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**Who acts:** Lithuanians · **What happens:** emigrate, seek · **To what, where:** better opportunities

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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 (Lithuanians), 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:319
# text = Between 2004 and 2016, one of five Lithuanians emigrated, seeking better opportunities and higher salaries abroad.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	Lithuanians	Lithuanian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	emigrated	emigrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	opportunities	opportunity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	salaries	salary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **emigrate** | past | Lithuanians |  |  |  |  | between 2004 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | Lithuanians *not said here* | better opportunities and higher salaries |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |

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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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