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title: Catholic and Orthodox Christianity had already arrived in Latvia mor… — Riga · tree and pragmatics
description: Catholic and Orthodox Christianity had already arrived in Latvia more than a century earlier, and many Latvians had been baptized. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riga, sentence 30

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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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Catholic and Orthodox Christianity had already arrived in Latvia more than a century earlier, and many Latvians had been baptized.

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**What happens:** arrive, baptize · **To what, where:** many Latvians

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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: 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:30
# text = Catholic and Orthodox Christianity had already arrived in Latvia more than a century earlier, and many Latvians had been baptized.
1	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	mark	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Orthodox	Orthodox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Latvia	Latvia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Latvians	Latvian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	baptized	baptize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **baptize** | past · perfect · passive |  | many Latvians |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result |

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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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