Transnistria, sentence 47
From Wikipedia, «Transnistria», 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 early 1988, the PFM demanded that the Soviet authorities declare Moldovan the only state language, return to the use of the Latin alphabet, and recognise the shared ethnic identity of Moldovans and Romanians.
Who acts: PFM, Soviet authorities · What happens: demand, declare, return, recognise, share, use · To what, where: early 1988, Moldovan, shared ethnic identity, Latin alphabet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Transnistria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PFM, Soviet authorities), 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 | _ | 3 1988 | case |
| 2 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 1988 | amod |
| 3 | 1988 | 1988 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 demanded | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1988 | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 PFM | det |
| 6 | PFM | PFM | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 demanded | nsubj |
| 7 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 declare | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 authorities | det |
| 10 | Soviet | soviet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 authorities | amod |
| 11 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 declare | nsubj |
| 12 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 return | advcl |
| 13 | Moldovan | Moldovan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 declare | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 language | det |
| 15 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 language | amod |
| 16 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 language | compound |
| 17 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 declare | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 declare | punct |
| 19 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 demanded | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 use | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 use | det |
| 22 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 return | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 alphabet | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 alphabet | det |
| 25 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 alphabet | amod |
| 26 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 use | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 recognise | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 recognise | cc |
| 29 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 return | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 identity | det |
| 31 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 identity | amod |
| 32 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 identity | amod |
| 33 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 recognise | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Moldovans | case |
| 35 | Moldovans | Moldovan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 identity | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Romanians | cc |
| 37 | Romanians | Romanian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 Moldovans | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | the PFM | early 1988 | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | present | the Soviet authorities | Moldovan | the only state language obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent moldovan=Theme language=Attribute | |||
| 3 | return | infinitive | to the use of the Latin alphabet result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to use=Result | |||||
| 4 | recognise | infinitive | the shared ethnic identity of Moldovans and Romanians | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer identity=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | use | the Latin alphabet | nom use «act 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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