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title: There is also substantial controversy over ethnic and linguistic ide… — Moldova · tree and pragmatics
description: There is also substantial controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova concerning whether the Moldovan language and Moldovan people constitute separate linguistic and ethnic groups to the Romanian language and Romanian people. Who acts: substantial controversy, ethnic identity, Moldova
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# Moldova, sentence 419

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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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There is also substantial controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova concerning whether the Moldovan language and Moldovan people constitute separate linguistic and ethnic groups to the Romanian language and Romanian people.

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**Who acts:** substantial controversy, ethnic identity, Moldovan language · **What happens:** be, concern, constitute · **To what, where:** ethnic identity, separate linguistic

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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 (substantial controversy, ethnic identity, Moldovan language), 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:419
# text = There is also substantial controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova concerning whether the Moldovan language and Moldovan people constitute separate linguistic and ethnic groups to the Romanian language and Romanian people.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	substantial	substantial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	controversy	controversy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	linguistic	linguistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Moldova	Moldova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Moldovan	moldovan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Moldovan	moldovan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	constitute	constitute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
22	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	linguistic	linguistic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Romanian	romanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	Romanian	Romanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | substantial controversy |  |  | ethnic identity in Moldova; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over identity=Location |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | ethnic identity in Moldova *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **constitute** | present | the Moldovan language and Moldovan people | separate linguistic and ethnic groups to the Romanian language and Romanian people |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme linguistic=Pivot |

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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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