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title: The unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria lies across the Dni… — Moldova · tree and pragmatics
description: The unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. Who acts: unrecognised breakaway state. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moldova» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moldova, sentence 3

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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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The unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine.

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**Who acts:** unrecognised breakaway state · **What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** Dniester river

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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 (unrecognised breakaway state), 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:3
# text = The unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	unrecognised	unrecognised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	breakaway	breakaway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Transnistria	Transnistria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Dniester	Dniester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | the unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria |  |  | the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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