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title: They managed to reach the final of the Latvian Basketball League in… — Riga · tree and pragmatics
description: They managed to reach the final of the Latvian Basketball League in their first season, and the final of the Latvian–Estonian League in their second season. Who acts: men. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riga, sentence 245

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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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They managed to reach the final of the Latvian Basketball League in their first season, and the final of the Latvian–Estonian League in their second season.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** manage, reach · **To what, where:** final

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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 (men), 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:245
# text = They managed to reach the final of the Latvian Basketball League in their first season, and the final of the Latvian–Estonian League in their second season.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	final	final	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Latvian	latvian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Basketball	Basketball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	final	final	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	Latvian	latvian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Estonian	Estonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | past | men *= man* | the final of the Latvian Estonian League |  |  | season |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | the final of the Latvian Basketball League |  |  | season |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent final=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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