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title: However, the Great Depression in Romania took its toll on Bucharest'… — Bucharest · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the Great Depression in Romania took its toll on Bucharest's citizens, culminating in the Grivița Strike of 1933. Who acts: Great Depression, Depression. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bucharest» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bucharest, sentence 52

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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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However, the Great Depression in Romania took its toll on Bucharest's citizens, culminating in the Grivița Strike of 1933.

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**Who acts:** Great Depression, Depression · **What happens:** take, culminate, toll · **To what, where:** toll, Grivița Strike

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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 (Great Depression, Depression), 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:52
# text = However, the Great Depression in Romania took its toll on Bucharest's citizens, culminating in the Grivița Strike of 1933.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Great	Great	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Depression	Depression	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Romania	Romania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	toll	toll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Bucharest	Bucharest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	culminating	culminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Grivița	Grivița	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Strike	Strike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1933	1933	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Great Depression in Romania | Depression's toll |  |  |  | on Bucharest's citizens; however *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent toll=Theme on citizen=Destination |
| 2 | **culminate** | gerund | the Great Depression in Romania *not said here* |  |  | the Grivița Strike of 1933 |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **toll** |  | Depression |  |  |  |  |  | nom toll «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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