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title: However, the widespread protests from the public put an end to this… — Riga · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the widespread protests from the public put an end to this plan, and the population decline from the 1990s onwards has made it irrelevant. Who acts: widespread protests. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riga, sentence 317

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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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However, the widespread protests from the public put an end to this plan, and the population decline from the 1990s onwards has made it irrelevant.

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**Who acts:** widespread protests · **What happens:** put, make · **To what, where:** end, population decline

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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 (widespread protests), 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:317
# text = However, the widespread protests from the public put an end to this plan, and the population decline from the 1990s onwards has made it irrelevant.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
23	onwards	onwards	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	irrelevant	irrelevant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the widespread protests from the public | a end |  |  |  | to this plan; however *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | the population decline from the 1990s |  |  | end | irrelevant *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Product |

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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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