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title: After World War I, Transylvania, Banat, Bukovina, and Bessarabia joi… — Romania · tree and pragmatics
description: After World War I, Transylvania, Banat, Bukovina, and Bessarabia joined the Old Kingdom, forming Greater Romania, which reached its largest territorial extent. Who acts: Bessarabia, Greater Romania, Kingdom. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Romania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Romania, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Romania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania), 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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After World War I, Transylvania, Banat, Bukovina, and Bessarabia joined the Old Kingdom, forming Greater Romania, which reached its largest territorial extent.

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**Who acts:** Bessarabia, Greater Romania, Kingdom · **What happens:** join, form, reach, extend · **To what, where:** Old Kingdom, Greater Romania, largest territorial extent

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Romania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bessarabia, Greater Romania, Kingdom), 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:Romania:10
# text = After World War I, Transylvania, Banat, Bukovina, and Bessarabia joined the Old Kingdom, forming Greater Romania, which reached its largest territorial extent.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Transylvania	Transylvania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Banat	Banat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Bukovina	Bukovina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Bessarabia	Bessarabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	Greater	Greater	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Romania	Romania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
27	territorial	territorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | Bessarabia | the Old Kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient |
| 2 | **form** | gerund | Bessarabia *not said here* | Greater Romania |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location romania=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | Greater Romania | Kingdom's largest territorial extent |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent extent=Theme |
| 5 | **extend** |  | Kingdom |  |  |  |  |  | nom extent «state transitive»: poss=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, «Romania», 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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