Tiraspol, sentence 20
From Wikipedia, «Tiraspol», 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.
In 1792 the Russian army built fortifications to guard the western border near a Moldavian village named Sucleia.
Who acts: Russian army · What happens: build, guard, name · To what, where: fortifications, 1792, western border, Moldavian village
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tiraspol». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian army), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1792 | case |
| 2 | 1792 | 1792 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 built | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 army | det |
| 4 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 army | amod |
| 5 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fortifications | fortification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 built | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 guard | mark |
| 9 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 built | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 border | det |
| 11 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 border | amod |
| 12 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guard | obj |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 village | det |
| 15 | Moldavian | Moldavian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 village | compound |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 border | nmod |
| 17 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 village | acl |
| 18 | Sucleia | Sucleia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 named | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | the Russian army | fortifications | 1792 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortification=Product | |||
| 2 | guard | to-infinitive | the Russian army not said here | the western border | a Moldavian village | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | name | participle | a Moldavian village not said here | Sucleia xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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