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title: In a meeting with the European Union in October 2022, EU representat… — Moldova · tree and pragmatics
description: In a meeting with the European Union in October 2022, EU representatives "welcomed positive developments in Moldova such as the ratification of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women, the adoption of legislation on hate crime, and the ongoing work to reform the El
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# Moldova, sentence 238

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From Wikipedia, [«Moldova»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova), 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 a meeting with the European Union in October 2022, EU representatives "welcomed positive developments in Moldova such as the ratification of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women, the adoption of legislation on hate crime, and the ongoing work to reform the Electoral Code.

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**Who acts:** EU representatives, Istanbul Convention · **What happens:** welcome, prevent, combat, reform, ratify, adopt · **To what, where:** positive developments, Moldova, violence, Electoral Code, meeting, Istanbul Convention

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Moldova». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (EU representatives, Istanbul Convention), 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:Moldova:238
# text = In a meeting with the European Union in October 2022, EU representatives "welcomed positive developments in Moldova such as the ratification of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women, the adoption of legislation on hate crime, and the ongoing work to reform the Electoral Code.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	EU	EU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	representatives	representative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	positive	positive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	developments	development	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Moldova	Moldova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ratification	ratification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Convention	Convention	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	preventing	prevent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	combating	combat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	conj	_	_
32	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	against	against	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	legislation	legislation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	hate	hate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	ongoing	ongoing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	reform	reform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	acl	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	Electoral	Electoral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	Code	Code	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **welcome** *in a quote* | participle | EU representatives *not said here* | positive developments |  | Moldova such the ratification of the Istanbul Convention |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent development=Theme in moldova=Location |
| 2 | **prevent** *in a quote* | gerund | the Istanbul Convention *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **combat** *in a quote* | gerund | the Istanbul Convention *not said here* | violence |  |  |  | against women | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent violence=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **reform** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the Electoral Code |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent code=Patient |
| 6 | **ratify** *in a quote* |  |  | the Istanbul Convention |  |  |  |  | nom ratification «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **adopt** *in a quote* |  |  | legislation on hate crime |  |  |  |  | nom adoption «act 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, «Moldova», 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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