--- title: Pressure by monarch Sigismund II Augustus (a supporter of a close Po… — Lithuania · tree and pragmatics description: Pressure by monarch Sigismund II Augustus (a supporter of a close Polish–Lithuanian union), the Lithuanian nobility agreed to conclude the Union of Lublin in 1569 with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, which created the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with a joint monarch, with Lithuania remaining --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lithuania/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Lithuania](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lithuania/) / 59 # Lithuania, sentence 59 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. Pressure by monarch Sigismund II Augustus (a supporter of a close Polish–Lithuanian union), the Lithuanian nobility agreed to conclude the Union of Lublin in 1569 with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, which created the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with a joint monarch, with Lithuania remaining a separate state. **Who acts:** Pressure, Crown, Lithuania, monarch · **What happens:** agree, conclude, create, remain, press · **To what, where:** Union, 1569, Polish, separate state 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 (Pressure, Crown, Lithuania, monarch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:59 # text = Pressure by monarch Sigismund II Augustus (a supporter of a close Polish–Lithuanian union), the Lithuanian nobility agreed to conclude the Union of Lublin in 1569 with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, which created the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with a joint monarch, with Lithuania remaining a separate state. 1 Pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 2 by by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 Sigismund Sigismund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 II II NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 4 flat _ _ 6 Augustus Augustus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 supporter supporter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 12 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 13 Polish polish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 – - PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Lithuanian lithuanian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 union union NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Lithuanian lithuanian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 nobility nobility NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 conclude conclude VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Lublin Lublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 1569 1569 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Crown Crown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Kingdom Kingdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Poland Poland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 created create VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Polish polish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 – - PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 Lithuanian lithuanian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 Commonwealth Commonwealth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 joint joint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 with with ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 Lithuania Lithuania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 54 remaining remain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 53 acl _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 56 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Pressure by monarch | | | | | Sigismund Augustus *nsubj*; the Lithuanian nobility *nsubj* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **conclude** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Pressure by monarch *not said here* | the Union of Lublin | | 1569 | | with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector union=Eventuality with crown=Subeventuality | | 3 | **create** | past | the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland | the Polish | | | | Lithuanian Commonwealth with a joint monarch and Lithuania *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent polish=Result | | 4 | **remain** | gerund | Lithuania *not said here* | a separate state | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme state=Attribute | | 5 | **press** | | monarch | | | | | | nom pressure «phenomenon transitive»: by=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lithuania/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lithuania/60/) - ↑ back to [Lithuania](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Lithuania/)