Romania, sentence 231
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A movement for unification of Moldova and Romania appeared in the early 1990s after both countries achieved emancipation from communist rule but lost ground in the mid-1990s when a new Moldovan government pursued an agenda towards preserving a Moldovan republic independent of Romania.
Who acts: movement, countries, new Moldovan government · What happens: appear, achieve, lose, pursue, preserve, unify · To what, where: early 1990s, emancipation, communist rule, ground, mid-1990s, agenda
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Romania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (movement, countries, new Moldovan government), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 movement | det |
| 2 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 unification | case |
| 4 | unification | unification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 movement | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Moldova | case |
| 6 | Moldova | Moldova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 unification | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Romania | cc |
| 8 | Romania | Romania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Moldova | conj |
| 9 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1990s | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 1990s | det |
| 12 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 1990s | amod |
| 13 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 9 appeared | obl |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 achieved | mark |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 countries | det |
| 16 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 achieved | nsubj |
| 17 | achieved | achieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appeared | advcl |
| 18 | emancipation | emancipation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 achieved | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 rule | case |
| 20 | communist | communist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rule | amod |
| 21 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 achieved | obl |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 lost | cc |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appeared | conj |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lost | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 mid-1990s | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 mid-1990s | det |
| 27 | mid-1990s | mid-1990 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 23 lost | obl |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 pursued | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 government | det |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 government | amod |
| 31 | Moldovan | moldovan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 government | amod |
| 32 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pursued | nsubj |
| 33 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | advcl |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 agenda | det |
| 35 | agenda | agenda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pursued | obj |
| 36 | towards | towards | SCONJ | _ | 37 preserving | mark |
| 37 | preserving | preserve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 pursued | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 republic | det |
| 39 | Moldovan | moldovan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 republic | amod |
| 40 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 preserving | obj |
| 41 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 preserving | xcomp |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Romania | case |
| 43 | Romania | Romania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 independent | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a movement for unification of Moldova and Romania | the early 1990s | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1990s=Location | ||||
| 2 | achieve | past | both countries | emancipation | communist rule | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emancipation=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | lose | past | a movement for unification of Moldova and Romania not said here | ground | the mid-1990s | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | pursue | past | a new Moldovan government | a agenda | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agenda=Theme | ||||
| 5 | preserve | gerund | a new Moldovan government not said here | a Moldovan republic | independent property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | unify | Moldova and Romania | nom unification «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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