Riga, sentence 40
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 year 1201 also marked the first arrival of German merchants in Novgorod, via the Dvina.
Who acts: German merchants · What happens: mark, arrive · To what, where: first arrival
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 (German merchants), 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 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | 1201 | 1201 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 year | flat |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 marked | advmod |
| 5 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 arrival | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 arrival | amod |
| 8 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marked | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 merchants | case |
| 10 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 merchants | amod |
| 11 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 arrival | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Novgorod | case |
| 13 | Novgorod | Novgorod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 merchants | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Dvina | punct |
| 15 | via | via | ADP | _ | 17 Dvina | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dvina | det |
| 17 | Dvina | Dvina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 marked | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | the first arrival of German merchants in Novgorod | year | the Dvina conj | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent arrival=Destination | |||
| 2 | arrive | German merchants in Novgorod | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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