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title: The huge number of cars registered in the city forced the Romanian A… — Bucharest · tree and pragmatics
description: The huge number of cars registered in the city forced the Romanian Auto Registry to switch to 3-digit numbers on registration plates in 2010. Who acts: huge number, Romanian Auto. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bucharest» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bucharest, sentence 248

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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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The huge number of cars registered in the city forced the Romanian Auto Registry to switch to 3-digit numbers on registration plates in 2010.

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**Who acts:** huge number, Romanian Auto · **What happens:** register, force, switch · **To what, where:** cars, city, Romanian Auto, registration plates

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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 (huge number, Romanian Auto), 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:248
# text = The huge number of cars registered in the city forced the Romanian Auto Registry to switch to 3-digit numbers on registration plates in 2010.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	registered	register	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Romanian	Romanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Auto	Auto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	Registry	Registry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	switch	switch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	digit	digit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	registration	registration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **register** | participle |  | cars *not said here* |  | the city |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **force** | past | the huge number of cars | the Romanian Auto |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent auto=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **switch** | to-infinitive | the Romanian Auto *not said here* |  |  | registration plates |  | to digit numbers *result*; in 2010 | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to number=Result |

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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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