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title: The University of Latvia and Riga Technical University are two major… — Latvia · tree and pragmatics
description: The University of Latvia and Riga Technical University are two major universities in the country, both successors to Riga Polytechnical Institute, and located in Riga. Who acts: University. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Latvia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Latvia, sentence 431

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From Wikipedia, [«Latvia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The University of Latvia and Riga Technical University are two major universities in the country, both successors to Riga Polytechnical Institute, and located in Riga.

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**Who acts:** University · **What happens:** be, locate · **To what, where:** two major universities, country, Riga

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Latvia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (University), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Latvia:431
# text = The University of Latvia and Riga Technical University are two major universities in the country, both successors to Riga Polytechnical Institute, and located in Riga.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Latvia	Latvia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	Riga	Riga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Technical	Technical	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	successors	successor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Riga	Riga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Polytechnical	polytechnical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Riga	Riga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the University of Latvia and Riga Technical University | two major universities and both successors to Riga  Polytechnical Institute |  | the country |  | both successors to Riga  Polytechnical Institute *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **locate** | participle |  | two major universities and both successors to Riga  Polytechnical Institute *not said here* |  | Riga |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Latvia», 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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