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title: There is a big lack of buses inside city limits, with only 115 buses… — Chișinău · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a big lack of buses inside city limits, with only 115 buses operating within Chișinău. Who acts: big lack, 115 buses. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chișinău» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chișinău, sentence 313

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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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There is a big lack of buses inside city limits, with only 115 buses operating within Chișinău.

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**Who acts:** big lack, 115 buses · **What happens:** be, operate, lack · **To what, where:** buses

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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 (big lack, 115 buses), 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:313
# text = There is a big lack of buses inside city limits, with only 115 buses operating within Chișinău.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	115	115	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
16	operating	operate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Chișinău	Chișinău	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a big lack of buses inside city limits |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **operate** | gerund | 115 buses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within Chișinău | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lack** |  |  | buses inside city limits |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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