Riga, sentence 211
From Wikipedia, «Riga», 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.
The Bandstand is the place where the Latvian Song and Dance Festival, one of the largest amateur choral and dancing events in the world and part of UNESCO Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity list, takes places every five years.
Who acts: Bandstand, Latvian Song · What happens: be, take · To what, where: place, places
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Riga». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bandstand, Latvian Song), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bandstand | det |
| 2 | Bandstand | Bandstand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 takes | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Song | det |
| 8 | Latvian | latvian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Song | amod |
| 9 | Song | Song | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 takes | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Festival | cc |
| 11 | Dance | Dance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Festival | compound |
| 12 | Festival | Festival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Song | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Song | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 choral | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 choral | det |
| 17 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 choral | amod |
| 18 | amateur | amateur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 choral | compound |
| 19 | choral | choral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 events | cc |
| 21 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 events | compound |
| 22 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 choral | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 events | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 part | cc |
| 27 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 events | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Masterpieces | case |
| 29 | UNESCO | UNESCO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Masterpieces | compound |
| 30 | Masterpieces | masterpiece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 part | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Oral | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Oral | det |
| 33 | Oral | Oral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Masterpieces | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Heritage | cc |
| 35 | Intangible | Intangible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Heritage | compound |
| 36 | Heritage | Heritage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Oral | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 list | case |
| 38 | Humanity | Humanity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 list | compound |
| 39 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Heritage | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 takes | punct |
| 41 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 42 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 takes | obj |
| 43 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 years | det |
| 44 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 years | nummod |
| 45 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 takes | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Bandstand | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | the Latvian Song and Dance Festival | places | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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