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title: *****Since the independence of Moldova, there is an ongoing controve… — Chișinău · tree and pragmatics
description: *****Since the independence of Moldova, there is an ongoing controversy over whether Moldovans and Romanians are the same ethnic group.; *****In 2014, part of the population weren't reviewed. Who acts: ongoing controversy, Moldovans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chișinău» with its dependency tree and 
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# Chișinău, sentence 223

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From Wikipedia, [«Chișinău»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chișinău), 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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\*\*\*\*\*Since the independence of Moldova, there is an ongoing controversy over whether Moldovans and Romanians are the same ethnic group.; \*\*\*\*\*In 2014, part of the population weren't reviewed.

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**Who acts:** ongoing controversy, Moldovans · **What happens:** be, not review · **To what, where:** same ethnic group, part

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chișinău». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ongoing controversy, Moldovans), 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:Chișinău:223
# text = *****Since the independence of Moldova, there is an ongoing controversy over whether Moldovans and Romanians are the same ethnic group.; *****In 2014, part of the population weren't reviewed.
1	*****	*****	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Moldova	Moldova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ongoing	ongoing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	controversy	controversy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	Moldovans	Moldovan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Romanians	Romanian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	*****	*****	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	In	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	reviewed	review	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a ongoing controversy |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Moldovans and Romanians |  |  | the same ethnic group |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **review** | past · passive |  | part of the population |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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, «Chișinău», 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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