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title: Most of Lithuania's territory was annexed by the Russian Empire, whi… — Lithuania · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of Lithuania's territory was annexed by the Russian Empire, while Užnemunė was annexed by Prussia. Who acts: Russian Empire, Prussia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Lithuania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Lithuania, sentence 68

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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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Most of Lithuania's territory was annexed by the Russian Empire, while Užnemunė was annexed by Prussia.

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**Who acts:** Russian Empire, Prussia · **What happens:** annex · **To what, where:** Most, Užnemunė

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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 (Russian Empire, Prussia), 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:68
# text = Most of Lithuania's territory was annexed by the Russian Empire, while Užnemunė was annexed by Prussia.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Lithuania	Lithuania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	annexed	annex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	Užnemunė	Užnemunė	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	annexed	annex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Prussia	Prussia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **annex** | past · passive | the Russian Empire | Most of Lithuania's territory |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **annex** | past · passive | Prussia | Užnemunė |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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