Chișinău, sentence 223

From Wikipedia, «Chișinău», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

*****Since the independence of Moldova, there is an ongoing controversy over whether Moldovans and Romanians are the same ethnic group.; *****In 2014, part of the population weren't reviewed.

Who acts: ongoing controversy, Moldovans · What happens: be, not review · To what, where: same ethnic group, part

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chișinău». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ongoing controversy, Moldovans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	*****	*****	PUNCT	_	4 independence	punct
2	Since	since	ADP	_	4 independence	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 independence	det
4	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Moldova	case
6	Moldova	Moldova	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 independence	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 independence	parataxis
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 controversy	det
11	ongoing	ongoing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 controversy	amod
12	controversy	controversy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
13	over	over	ADP	_	22 group	case
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 group	mark
15	Moldovans	Moldovan	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 group	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Romanians	cc
17	Romanians	Romanian	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 Moldovans	conj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 group	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 group	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 group	amod
21	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 group	amod
22	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 controversy	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 2014	punct
25	*****	*****	PUNCT	_	27 2014	punct
26	In	in	ADP	_	27 2014	case
27	2014	2014	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 independence	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 part	punct
29	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 reviewed	nsubj:pass
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 population	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 population	det
32	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 part	nmod
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 reviewed	aux:pass
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 reviewed	advmod
35	reviewed	review	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 2014	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 independence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	a ongoing controversy		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Moldovans and Romanians		the same ethnic group	tree rules
3	not review	past · passive		part of the population		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Chișinău», 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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Pragmatics

Chișinău, sentence 223