Transnistria, sentence 5
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.
The region's origins can be traced to the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR), which was formed in 1924 within the Ukrainian SSR.
What happens: trace, form · To what, where: origins, Moldavian Republic, 1924
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 region | det |
| 2 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 origins | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 region | case |
| 4 | origins | origin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 traced | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 traced | aux:pass |
| 7 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Republic | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Republic | det |
| 10 | Moldavian | Moldavian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Republic | compound |
| 11 | Autonomous | autonomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Socialist | amod |
| 12 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Socialist | compound |
| 13 | Socialist | socialist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Republic | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 traced | obl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 MASSR | punct |
| 16 | MASSR | MASSR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Republic | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 MASSR | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 formed | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 formed | aux:pass |
| 21 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Republic | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1924 | case |
| 23 | 1924 | 1924 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 formed | obl |
| 24 | within | within | ADP | _ | 27 SSR | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 SSR | det |
| 26 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 SSR | amod |
| 27 | SSR | SSR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 formed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 traced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | can · passive | the region's origins | to the Moldavian Republic Autonomous Soviet Socialist | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | past · passive | the Moldavian Republic Autonomous Soviet Socialist | 1924 | within the Ukrainian SSR | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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