Moldova, sentence 5
From Wikipedia, «Moldova», 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.
Most of Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a vassal state) and became known as Bessarabia.
Who acts: Most, Ottoman Empire, Moldavia · What happens: be, cede, become, know · To what, where: part, Principality, Russian Empire, vassal state
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 (Most, Ottoman Empire, Moldavia), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 part | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 territory | case |
| 3 | Moldovan | moldovan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 territory | amod |
| 4 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Most | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 part | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Principality | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Principality | det |
| 10 | Principality | principality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Moldavia | case |
| 12 | Moldavia | Moldavia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Principality | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 century | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 century | det |
| 15 | 14th | 14th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 16 century | amod |
| 16 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Principality | nmod |
| 17 | until | until | ADP | _ | 18 1812 | case |
| 18 | 1812 | 1812 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 century | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ceded | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 ceded | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ceded | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ceded | aux:pass |
| 23 | ceded | cede | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 part | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Empire | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Empire | det |
| 26 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Empire | amod |
| 27 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ceded | obl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 Empire | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Empire | det |
| 30 | Ottoman | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Empire | compound |
| 31 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ceded | obl |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 state | punct |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 state | obl |
| 35 | Moldavia | Moldavia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 state | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 state | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 state | det |
| 38 | vassal | vassal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 state | amod |
| 39 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Empire | appos |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 state | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 became | cc |
| 42 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ceded | conj |
| 43 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 became | xcomp |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 Bessarabia | case |
| 45 | Bessarabia | Bessarabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 known | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Most of Moldovan territory | a part | of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812 | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cede | past · passive | the Ottoman Empire | Principality | the Russian Empire | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to empire=Goal | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Moldavia | a vassal state | to the Ottoman Empire | tree rules | |||
| 4 | become | past | the Ottoman Empire not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | participle | the Ottoman Empire not said here | as Bessarabia | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as bessarabia=Attribute |
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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