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title: According to the World Bank, despite a strong economic performance o… — Moldova · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the World Bank, despite a strong economic performance over the past two decades, Moldova remains among the poorest nations in Europe. Who acts: Moldova. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moldova» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moldova, sentence 244

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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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According to the World Bank, despite a strong economic performance over the past two decades, Moldova remains among the poorest nations in Europe.

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**Who acts:** Moldova · **What happens:** accord, remain · **To what, where:** poorest nations

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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 (Moldova), 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:244
# text = According to the World Bank, despite a strong economic performance over the past two decades, Moldova remains among the poorest nations in Europe.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	Moldova	Moldova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	poorest	poor	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | present | Moldova |  |  | the poorest nations in Europe |  | accord the World Bank | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among nation=Location |

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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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