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title: Miervaldis Jurševskis (1921–2014), Latvian–Canadian chess master and… — Riga · tree and pragmatics
description: Miervaldis Jurševskis (1921–2014), Latvian–Canadian chess master and professional artist A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riga, sentence 419

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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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Miervaldis Jurševskis (1921–2014), Latvian–Canadian chess master and professional artist

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**To what, where:** Miervaldis

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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:419
# text = Miervaldis Jurševskis (1921–2014), Latvian–Canadian chess master and professional artist
1	Miervaldis	Miervaldis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Jurševskis	Jurševskis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	1921	1921	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Latvian	latvian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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