Lithuania, sentence 556
From Wikipedia, «Lithuania», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Lithuanian is believed to be the linguistically most conservative living Indo-European tongue, retaining many features of Proto Indo-European.
Who acts: living, conservative European tongue · What happens: believe, live, be, retain, feature · To what, where: Lithuanian, conservative European tongue, many features, Proto
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 (living, conservative European tongue), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lithuanian | lithuanian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 believed | aux:pass |
| 3 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tongue | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tongue | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tongue | det |
| 7 | linguistically | linguistically | ADV | _ | 9 conservative | advmod |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 conservative | advmod |
| 9 | conservative | conservative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tongue | amod |
| 10 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 tongue | csubj |
| 11 | Indo | Indo | X | _ | 10 living | parataxis |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Indo | punct |
| 13 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tongue | amod |
| 14 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 believed | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 retaining | punct |
| 16 | retaining | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 tongue | acl |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 features | amod |
| 18 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 retaining | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Proto | case |
| 20 | Proto | Proto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 features | nmod |
| 21 | Indo | Indo | X | _ | 23 European | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Indo | punct |
| 23 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Proto | amod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · passive | Lithuanian | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | living | the conservative European tongue | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | retain | gerund | the conservative European tongue not said here | many features of Proto | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feature | Proto | nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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.
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