--- title: During Nicolae Ceaușescu's leadership (1965–89), a part of the histo… — Bucharest · tree and pragmatics description: During Nicolae Ceaușescu's leadership (1965–89), a part of the historic city was demolished and replaced by 'Socialist realism' style development: (1) the Centrul Civic (the Civic Centre) and (2) the Palace of the Parliament, for which an entire historic quarter was razed to make way for Ceaușescu's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bucharest/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Bucharest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bucharest/) / 59 # Bucharest, sentence 59 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. During Nicolae Ceaușescu's leadership (1965–89), a part of the historic city was demolished and replaced by 'Socialist realism' style development: (1) the Centrul Civic (the Civic Centre) and (2) the Palace of the Parliament, for which an entire historic quarter was razed to make way for Ceaușescu's megalomaniac plans. **Who acts:** Ceaușescu · **What happens:** demolish, replace, raze, make, plan · **To what, where:** part, entire historic quarter, way 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 (Ceaușescu), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Bucharest:59 # text = During Nicolae Ceaușescu's leadership (1965–89), a part of the historic city was demolished and replaced by 'Socialist realism' style development: (1) the Centrul Civic (the Civic Centre) and (2) the Palace of the Parliament, for which an entire historic quarter was razed to make way for Ceaușescu's megalomaniac plans. 1 During during ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 Nicolae Nicolae PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 Ceaușescu Ceaușescu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 5 leadership leadership NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 1965 1965 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ SpaceAfter=No 9 89 89 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 historic historic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 demolished demolish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 replaced replace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Socialist socialist NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 realism realism NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 1 1 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Centrul Centrul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Civic Civic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 Civic civic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 Centre Centre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 46 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 Palace Palace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 Parliament Parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 51 for for ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 58 obl _ _ 53 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 54 entire entire ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 55 historic historic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj:pass _ _ 57 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 58 aux:pass _ _ 58 razed raze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl:relcl _ _ 59 to to PART TO _ 60 mark _ _ 60 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 advcl _ _ 61 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obj _ _ 62 for for ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 63 Ceaușescu Ceaușescu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 64 's 's PART POS _ 63 case _ _ 65 megalomaniac megalomaniac NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 compound _ _ 66 plans plan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **demolish** | past · passive | | a part of the historic city | | | during Nicolae's leadership | the Centrul Civic and the Palace of the Parliament *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **replace** | participle | | | | | | by style development Socialist realism | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **raze** | past · passive | | a entire historic quarter | | | | for the Centrul Civic and the Palace of the Parliament | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | | way | | | | for Ceaușescu's megalomaniac plans | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent way=Product for plan=Asset | | 5 | **plan** | | Ceaușescu | | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bucharest/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bucharest/60/) - ↑ back to [Bucharest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bucharest/)