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title: In June 1941, in order to recover Bessarabia, Romania entered World… — Chișinău · tree and pragmatics
description: In June 1941, in order to recover Bessarabia, Romania entered World War II under the command of the German Wehrmacht, declaring war on the Soviet Union. Who acts: Bessarabia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Chișinău» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Chișinău, sentence 67

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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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In June 1941, in order to recover Bessarabia, Romania entered World War II under the command of the German Wehrmacht, declaring war on the Soviet Union.

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**Who acts:** Bessarabia · **What happens:** recover, enter, declare, command · **To what, where:** World War, command, war, Soviet Union, German Wehrmacht · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:67
# text = In June 1941, in order to recover Bessarabia, Romania entered World War II under the command of the German Wehrmacht, declaring war on the Soviet Union.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	8	mark	_	_
6	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	fixed	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	recover	recover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Bessarabia	Bessarabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Romania	Romania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Wehrmacht	Wehrmacht	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	declaring	declare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
25	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | june |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | past | Bessarabia  Romania |  | World War | the command of the German Wehrmacht |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=Destination |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund | Bessarabia  Romania *not said here* | war |  | the Soviet Union |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |
| 4 | **command** |  |  | the German Wehrmacht |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication 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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