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title: They were considered a characteristic animal of Scythia in antiquity. — Moldova · tree and pragmatics
description: They were considered a characteristic animal of Scythia in antiquity. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moldova» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moldova, sentence 95

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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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They were considered a characteristic animal of Scythia in antiquity.

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**What happens:** consider · **To what, where:** Deforestation, antiquity

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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: 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:95
# text = They were considered a characteristic animal of Scythia in antiquity.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Scythia	Scythia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past · passive |  | Deforestation |  | antiquity |  | a characteristic animal of Scythia *xcomp* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |

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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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