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title: The Bandstand is the place where the Latvian Song and Dance Festival… — Riga · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bandstand is the place where the Latvian Song and Dance Festival, one of the largest amateur choral and dancing events in the world and part of UNESCO Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity list, takes places every five years. Who acts: Bandstand, Latvian Song. A sentence o
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# Riga, sentence 211

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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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The Bandstand is the place where the Latvian Song and Dance Festival, one of the largest amateur choral and dancing events in the world and part of UNESCO Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity list, takes places every five years.

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**Who acts:** Bandstand, Latvian Song · **What happens:** be, take · **To what, where:** place, places

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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 (Bandstand, Latvian Song), 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:211
# text = The Bandstand is the place where the Latvian Song and Dance Festival, one of the largest amateur choral and dancing events in the world and part of UNESCO Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity list, takes places every five years.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bandstand	Bandstand	PROPN	NNP	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	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Latvian	latvian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Song	Song	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Dance	Dance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Festival	Festival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
18	amateur	amateur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	choral	choral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	UNESCO	UNESCO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Masterpieces	masterpiece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Oral	Oral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	Intangible	Intangible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Heritage	Heritage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	Humanity	Humanity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
42	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
44	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 Bandstand | the place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | the Latvian Song and Dance Festival | places |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |

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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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