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title: In 1940, Romuva Cinema was opened in Kaunas and is the oldest operat… — Lithuania · tree and pragmatics
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# Lithuania, sentence 620

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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 1940, Romuva Cinema was opened in Kaunas and is the oldest operating cinema in Lithuania.

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**What happens:** open, be · **To what, where:** Romuva, 1940, oldest operating cinema, Lithuania

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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:620
# text = In 1940, Romuva Cinema was opened in Kaunas and is the oldest operating cinema in Lithuania.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1940	1940	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Romuva	Romuva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Cinema	Cinema	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Kaunas	Kaunas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	operating	operating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	cinema	cinema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Lithuania	Lithuania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · passive |  | Romuva |  | 1940 |  | in Kaunas | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in 1940=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the oldest operating cinema |  | Lithuania |  |  | 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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