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title: The medieval Principality of Moldavia emerged in the 1350s and was t… — Moldova · tree and pragmatics
description: The medieval Principality of Moldavia emerged in the 1350s and was the medieval precursor of modern Moldova and Romania. Who acts: medieval Principality. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moldova» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moldova, sentence 35

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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 medieval Principality of Moldavia emerged in the 1350s and was the medieval precursor of modern Moldova and Romania.

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**Who acts:** medieval Principality · **What happens:** emerge, be · **To what, where:** 1350s, medieval precursor

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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 (medieval Principality), 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:35
# text = The medieval Principality of Moldavia emerged in the 1350s and was the medieval precursor of modern Moldova and Romania.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	medieval	medieval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Principality	principality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Moldavia	Moldavia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	1350s	1350	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	medieval	medieval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	precursor	precursor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Moldova	Moldova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Romania	Romania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **emerge** | past | the medieval Principality of Moldavia |  |  | the 1350s |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1350=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the medieval Principality of Moldavia *not said here* | the medieval precursor |  |  |  | of modern Moldova and Romania | tree rules |

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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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