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title: In 1211, Riga minted its first coinage, and Albert laid the cornerst… — Riga · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1211, Riga minted its first coinage, and Albert laid the cornerstone for the Riga Dom. Riga was not yet secure as an alliance of tribes failed to take Riga. Who acts: Riga, Albert, trade. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riga, sentence 48

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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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In 1211, Riga minted its first coinage, and Albert laid the cornerstone for the Riga Dom. Riga was not yet secure as an alliance of tribes failed to take Riga.

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**Who acts:** Riga, Albert, trade · **What happens:** mint, lay, not be, fail, not take, coin · **To what, where:** first coinage, 1211, cornerstone, Riga, tribes

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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 (Riga, Albert, trade), 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:48
# text = In 1211, Riga minted its first coinage, and Albert laid the cornerstone for the Riga Dom. Riga was not yet secure as an alliance of tribes failed to take Riga.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1211	1211	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Riga	Riga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	minted	mint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	coinage	coinage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Albert	Albert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cornerstone	cornerstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Riga	Riga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Dom.	Dom.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Riga	Riga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	alliance	alliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	Riga	Riga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mint** | past | Riga | trade's first coinage |  | 1211 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | past | Albert | the cornerstone |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cornerstone=Result |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  | yet | for the Dom. Riga; as a alliance of tribes; secure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fail** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **take** | to-infinitive |  |  | Riga |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument riga=Destination |
| 6 | **coin** |  | trade |  |  |  |  |  | nom coinage «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **ally** |  |  | tribes |  |  |  |  | nom alliance «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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