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description: BK Ventspils, which participates in EuroChallenge, is the second strongest basketball club in Latvia, previously winning LBL eight times and BBL in 2013. Who acts: BK. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Latvia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Latvia, sentence 485

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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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BK Ventspils, which participates in EuroChallenge, is the second strongest basketball club in Latvia, previously winning LBL eight times and BBL in 2013.

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**Who acts:** BK · **What happens:** participate, be, win · **To what, where:** second strongest basketball club, Latvia, LBL, 2013

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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 (BK), 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:485
# text = BK Ventspils, which participates in EuroChallenge, is the second strongest basketball club in Latvia, previously winning LBL eight times and BBL in 2013.
1	BK	BK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	Ventspils	Ventspils	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	participates	participate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	EuroChallenge	EuroChallenge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
12	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
13	basketball	basketball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Latvia	Latvia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
20	LBL	LBL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	BBL	BBL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **participate** | present | BK |  |  |  |  | in EuroChallenge | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in eurochallenge=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | BK | the second strongest basketball club |  | Latvia |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | gerund | BK *not said here* | LBL |  | 2013 | time | previously *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lbl=Eventuality |

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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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