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title: On 20 May, a rally called "Getting Rid of Soviet Heritage" took plac… — Riga · tree and pragmatics
description: On 20 May, a rally called "Getting Rid of Soviet Heritage" took place in Riga to call for removing Soviet monuments in Latvia, it was attended by approximately 5,000 people. Who acts: rally, 5,000 people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riga, sentence 129

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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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On 20 May, a rally called "Getting Rid of Soviet Heritage" took place in Riga to call for removing Soviet monuments in Latvia, it was attended by approximately 5,000 people.

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**Who acts:** rally, 5,000 people · **What happens:** call, get, take, remove, attend · **To what, where:** rally, Rid, place, Riga, Soviet monuments, Latvia · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rally, 5,000 people), 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:129
# text = On 20 May, a rally called "Getting Rid of Soviet Heritage" took place in Riga to call for removing Soviet monuments in Latvia, it was attended by approximately 5,000 people.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rally	rally	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
10	Rid	Rid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Heritage	Heritage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Riga	Riga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	removing	remove	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	monuments	monument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Latvia	Latvia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a rally *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | gerund |  | Rid of Soviet Heritage |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rid=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | past | a rally | place |  | Riga | may |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in riga=Location |
| 4 | **call** | to-infinitive | a rally *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **remove** | gerund | a rally *not said here* | Soviet monuments |  | Latvia |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monument=Theme |
| 6 | **attend** | past · passive | 5,000 people | Monument |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal |

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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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