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title: As stated by the Mercer international surveys for quality of life in… — Bucharest · tree and pragmatics
description: As stated by the Mercer international surveys for quality of life in cities around the world, Bucharest occupied the 94th place in 2001 and slipped lower, to the 108th place in 2009 and the 107th place in 2010. Who acts: Bucharest. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bucharest» with its dependency tree and p
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# Bucharest, sentence 171

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From Wikipedia, [«Bucharest»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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As stated by the Mercer international surveys for quality of life in cities around the world, Bucharest occupied the 94th place in 2001 and slipped lower, to the 108th place in 2009 and the 107th place in 2010.

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**Who acts:** Bucharest · **What happens:** state, occupy, slip · **To what, where:** cities, 94th place, 2001

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bucharest». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bucharest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bucharest:171
# text = As stated by the Mercer international surveys for quality of life in cities around the world, Bucharest occupied the 94th place in 2001 and slipped lower, to the 108th place in 2009 and the 107th place in 2010.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Mercer	Mercer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	surveys	survey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	Bucharest	Bucharest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	94th	94th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	108th	108th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
32	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	107th	107th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	38	amod	_	_
38	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | participle | Bucharest *not said here* |  |  | cities around the world |  | by the Mercer international surveys for quality of life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **occupy** | past | Bucharest | the 94th place |  | 2001 |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus place=Experiencer |
| 3 | **slip** | past | Bucharest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the 108th place in 2009 and the 107th place in 2010; low *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bucharest», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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