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title: Between World War I and World War II (1918–1940), Riga and Latvia sh… — Riga · tree and pragmatics
description: Between World War I and World War II (1918–1940), Riga and Latvia shifted their focus from Russia to the countries of Western Europe. Who acts: I, War. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Riga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Riga, sentence 92

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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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Between World War I and World War II (1918–1940), Riga and Latvia shifted their focus from Russia to the countries of Western Europe.

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**Who acts:** I, War · **What happens:** shift, focus · **To what, where:** focus, Russia

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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 (I, War), 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:92
# text = Between World War I and World War II (1918–1940), Riga and Latvia shifted their focus from Russia to the countries of Western Europe.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	1940	1940	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Riga	Riga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Latvia	Latvia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	shifted	shift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	focus	focus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shift** | past | I | War's focus |  | Russia |  | between World War; to the countries of Western Europe *result* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient focus=Extent from russia=Initial\_State to country=Result |
| 2 | **focus** |  | War |  |  |  |  |  | nom focus «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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