Riga, sentence 48
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.
In 1211, Riga minted its first coinage, and Albert laid the cornerstone for the Riga Dom. Riga was not yet secure as an alliance of tribes failed to take Riga.
Who acts: Riga, Albert, trade · What happens: mint, lay, not be, fail, not take, coin · To what, where: first coinage, 1211, cornerstone, Riga, tribes
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 (Riga, Albert, trade), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1211 | case |
| 2 | 1211 | 1211 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 minted | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1211 | punct |
| 4 | Riga | Riga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 minted | nsubj |
| 5 | minted | mint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 coinage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 coinage | amod |
| 8 | coinage | coinage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 minted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laid | cc |
| 11 | Albert | Albert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | nsubj |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 minted | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cornerstone | det |
| 14 | cornerstone | cornerstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Riga | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Riga | det |
| 17 | Riga | Riga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Dom. | compound |
| 18 | Dom. | Dom. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Riga | compound |
| 19 | Riga | Riga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 secure | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 secure | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 secure | advmod |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 secure | advmod |
| 23 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 laid | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 alliance | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 alliance | det |
| 26 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 secure | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tribes | case |
| 28 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 alliance | nmod |
| 29 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 secure | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 take | mark |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 failed | xcomp |
| 32 | Riga | Riga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 minted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mint | past | Riga | trade's first coinage | 1211 | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lay | past | Albert | the cornerstone | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cornerstone=Result | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | yet | for the Dom. Riga; as a alliance of tribes; secure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fail | past | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | not take | to-infinitive | Riga | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument riga=Destination | |||||
| 6 | coin | trade | nom coinage «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | ally | tribes | nom alliance «state 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.
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