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title: Another example is the House of the Blackheads, completely destroyed… — Riga · tree and pragmatics
description: Another example is the House of the Blackheads, completely destroyed, its ruins subsequently demolished; a facsimile was constructed in 1995. Who acts: example, house. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riga, sentence 120

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From Wikipedia, [«Riga»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga), 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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Another example is the House of the Blackheads, completely destroyed, its ruins subsequently demolished; a facsimile was constructed in 1995.

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**Who acts:** example, house · **What happens:** be, destroy, demolish, construct, ruin · **To what, where:** House, Blackheads, facsimile, 1995

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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 (example, house), 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:Riga:120
# text = Another example is the House of the Blackheads, completely destroyed, its ruins subsequently demolished; a facsimile was constructed in 1995.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Blackheads	blackhead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	demolished	demolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	facsimile	facsimile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | another example | the House |  |  |  | of the Blackheads | tree rules |
| 2 | **destroy** | participle |  | the Blackheads *not said here* |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **demolish** | participle · passive |  | the House |  |  |  | house's ruins *nsubj*; subsequently *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **construct** | past · passive |  | a facsimile |  | 1995 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 5 | **ruin** |  | house |  |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, «Riga», 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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