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title: In 1862, after Wallachia and Moldavia were united to form the Princi… — Bucharest · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1862, after Wallachia and Moldavia were united to form the Principality of Romania, Bucharest became the new nation's capital city. Who acts: Wallachia, Bucharest. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bucharest» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bucharest, sentence 42

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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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In 1862, after Wallachia and Moldavia were united to form the Principality of Romania, Bucharest became the new nation's capital city.

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**Who acts:** Wallachia, Bucharest · **What happens:** be, form, become · **To what, where:** Principality, capital city, 1862

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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 (Wallachia, 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:42
# text = In 1862, after Wallachia and Moldavia were united to form the Principality of Romania, Bucharest became the new nation's capital city.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1862	1862	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	Wallachia	Wallachia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Moldavia	Moldavia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	united	united	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Principality	principality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Romania	Romania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	Bucharest	Bucharest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Wallachia and Moldavia |  |  |  |  | united *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | to-infinitive |  | the Principality of Romania |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location principality=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | Bucharest | the new nation's capital city |  |  |  | in 1862 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1862=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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