Transnistria, sentence 89

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.

It is a narrow valley stretching north–south along the bank of the Dniester river, which forms a natural boundary along most of the de facto border with Moldova.

Who acts: border, narrow valley, Dniester river · What happens: be, stretch, form · To what, where: narrow valley, bank, natural boundary

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 (border, narrow valley, Dniester river), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 valley	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 valley	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 valley	det
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 valley	amod
5	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	stretching	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 valley	acl
7	north	north	ADV	_	6 stretching	advmod
8	–	-	PUNCT	_	9 south	punct
9	south	south	ADV	_	6 stretching	advmod
10	along	along	ADP	_	12 bank	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bank	det
12	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretching	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
15	Dniester	Dniester	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 river	compound
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bank	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 forms	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 forms	nsubj
19	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 river	acl:relcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 boundary	det
21	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boundary	amod
22	boundary	boundary	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 forms	obj
23	along	along	ADP	_	24 most	case
24	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 stretching	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 border	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 border	det
27	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	29 border	compound
28	facto	facto	X	_	29 border	compound
29	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 most	nmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 Moldova	case
31	Moldova	Moldova	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 border	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 valley	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	border	a narrow valley			tree rules
2	stretch	gerund	a narrow valley not said here		the bank of the Dniester river	along most of the de facto border with Moldova; north, south property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=Location
3	form	present	the Dniester river	a natural boundary			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boundary=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Transnistria, sentence 89