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title: In 1963, Vytautas Straižys and his colleagues created Vilnius photom… — Lithuania · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1963, Vytautas Straižys and his colleagues created Vilnius photometric system that is used in astronomy. Who acts: Vytautas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lithuania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lithuania, sentence 351

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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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In 1963, Vytautas Straižys and his colleagues created Vilnius photometric system that is used in astronomy.

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**Who acts:** Vytautas · **What happens:** create, use · **To what, where:** Vilnius photometric system, 1963, astronomy

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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 (Vytautas), 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:351
# text = In 1963, Vytautas Straižys and his colleagues created Vilnius photometric system that is used in astronomy.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1963	1963	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Vytautas	Vytautas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	Straižys	Straižys	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	colleagues	colleague	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	created	create	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Vilnius	Vilnius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	photometric	photometric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	astronomy	astronomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | past | Vytautas and Vytautas's colleagues | Vilnius photometric system |  | 1963 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Result |
| 2 | **use** | present · passive |  | Vilnius photometric system |  | astronomy |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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