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title: Alan Melikdjanian (born 1980), Latvian–American independent filmmake… — Riga · tree and pragmatics
description: Alan Melikdjanian (born 1980), Latvian–American independent filmmaker known as Captain Disillusion Who acts: Alan Melikdjanian. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riga, sentence 378

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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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Alan Melikdjanian (born 1980), Latvian–American independent filmmaker known as Captain Disillusion

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**Who acts:** Alan Melikdjanian · **What happens:** bear, know · **To what, where:** 1980, Latvian American independent filmmaker

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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 (Alan Melikdjanian), 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:378
# text = Alan Melikdjanian (born 1980), Latvian–American independent filmmaker known as Captain Disillusion
1	Alan	Alan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Melikdjanian	Melikdjanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Latvian	latvian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	filmmaker	filmmaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Disillusion	disillusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle | Alan Melikdjanian *not said here* | 1980 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1980=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | Latvian American independent filmmaker  Alan Melikdjanian *not said here* |  |  |  | as Captain Disillusion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as disillusion=Attribute |

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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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