Moldova, sentence 419
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There is also substantial controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova concerning whether the Moldovan language and Moldovan people constitute separate linguistic and ethnic groups to the Romanian language and Romanian people.
Who acts: substantial controversy, ethnic identity, Moldovan language · What happens: be, concern, constitute · To what, where: ethnic identity, separate linguistic
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Moldova». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (substantial controversy, ethnic identity, Moldovan language), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | substantial | substantial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 controversy | amod |
| 5 | controversy | controversy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 identity | case |
| 7 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 identity | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 linguistic | cc |
| 9 | linguistic | linguistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ethnic | conj |
| 10 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Moldova | case |
| 12 | Moldova | Moldova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 identity | nmod |
| 13 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 identity | acl |
| 14 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 21 constitute | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 language | det |
| 16 | Moldovan | moldovan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 language | amod |
| 17 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 constitute | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 people | cc |
| 19 | Moldovan | moldovan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 language | conj |
| 21 | constitute | constitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 concerning | advcl |
| 22 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 linguistic | amod |
| 23 | linguistic | linguistic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 constitute | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 groups | cc |
| 25 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 groups | amod |
| 26 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 linguistic | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 language | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 language | det |
| 29 | Romanian | romanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 language | amod |
| 30 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 groups | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 people | cc |
| 32 | Romanian | Romanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 people | compound |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 language | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | substantial controversy | ethnic identity in Moldova; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over identity=Location | ||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | ethnic identity in Moldova not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | constitute | present | the Moldovan language and Moldovan people | separate linguistic and ethnic groups to the Romanian language and Romanian people | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme linguistic=Pivot |
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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