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title: The dissolution of the USSR in 1991 led to declared independence, fo… — Moldova · tree and pragmatics
description: The dissolution of the USSR in 1991 led to declared independence, followed by the Transnistria War in 1992, a conflict that left the Transnistrian region as a de facto independent state. Who acts: dissolution, conflict. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moldova» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moldova, sentence 42

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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 dissolution of the USSR in 1991 led to declared independence, followed by the Transnistria War in 1992, a conflict that left the Transnistrian region as a de facto independent state.

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**Who acts:** dissolution, conflict · **What happens:** lead, declare, follow, leave, dissolve · **To what, where:** 1992, declared independence, Transnistrian region, USSR

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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 (dissolution, conflict), 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:42
# text = The dissolution of the USSR in 1991 led to declared independence, followed by the Transnistria War in 1992, a conflict that left the Transnistrian region as a de facto independent state.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	USSR	USSR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
8	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Transnistria	Transnistria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1992	1992	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Transnistrian	transnistrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	obl	_	_
31	facto	facto	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	dep	_	_
32	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 |  |  | 1992 |  | to declared independence; a conflict *parataxis* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to independence=Patient |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | participle |  | declared independence *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Transnistria War | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by war=Location |
| 4 | **leave** | past | a conflict | the Transnistrian region |  |  |  | as a de | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Theme |
| 5 | **dissolve** |  |  | the USSR |  |  |  |  | nom dissolution «process 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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