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title: Following the Russian October Revolution, Bessarabia declared indepe… — Chișinău · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the Russian October Revolution, Bessarabia declared independence as the Moldavian Democratic Republic, before joining the Kingdom of Romania. Who acts: Bessarabia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chișinău» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chișinău, sentence 55

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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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Following the Russian October Revolution, Bessarabia declared independence as the Moldavian Democratic Republic, before joining the Kingdom of Romania.

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**Who acts:** Bessarabia · **What happens:** follow, declare, join · **To what, where:** independence, Kingdom, Following Russian October Revolution

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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 (Bessarabia), 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:55
# text = Following the Russian October Revolution, Bessarabia declared independence as the Moldavian Democratic Republic, before joining the Kingdom of Romania.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Bessarabia	Bessarabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Moldavian	Moldavian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Democratic	Democratic	PROPN	NNP	_	14	compound	_	_
14	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	joining	join	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Romania	Romania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Bessarabia | independence |  |  |  | as the Moldavian Democratic Republic | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent independence=Theme as republic=Attribute |
| 3 | **join** | gerund | Bessarabia *not said here* | the Kingdom of Romania |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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