Riga, sentence 378
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.
Alan Melikdjanian (born 1980), Latvian–American independent filmmaker known as Captain Disillusion
Who acts: Alan Melikdjanian · What happens: bear, know · To what, where: 1980, Latvian American independent filmmaker
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 (Alan Melikdjanian), 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 | Alan | Alan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Melikdjanian | compound |
| 2 | Melikdjanian | Melikdjanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 filmmaker | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Melikdjanian | acl |
| 5 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 born | obj |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Latvian | punct |
| 8 | Latvian | latvian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 filmmaker | amod |
| 9 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Latvian | punct |
| 10 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 filmmaker | amod |
| 11 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 filmmaker | amod |
| 12 | filmmaker | filmmaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 filmmaker | acl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Disillusion | case |
| 15 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Disillusion | compound |
| 16 | Disillusion | disillusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | Alan Melikdjanian not said here | 1980 | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1980=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | Latvian American independent filmmaker Alan Melikdjanian not said here | as Captain Disillusion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as disillusion=Attribute |
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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