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title: The Wallachian revolutionaries were the first to adopt the blue, yel… — Romania · tree and pragmatics
description: The Wallachian revolutionaries were the first to adopt the blue, yellow and red tricolour as the national flag, which included the motto "Justice, Fraternity" (Dreptate, Frăție) to symbolise the bond between Wallachians and Moldavians. Who acts: Wallachian revolutionaries, national flag. A sentence 
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# Romania, sentence 115

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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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The Wallachian revolutionaries were the first to adopt the blue, yellow and red tricolour as the national flag, which included the motto "Justice, Fraternity" (Dreptate, Frăție) to symbolise the bond between Wallachians and Moldavians.

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**Who acts:** Wallachian revolutionaries, national flag · **What happens:** be, adopt, include, symbolise · **To what, where:** blue tricolour, motto, bond

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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 (Wallachian revolutionaries, national flag), 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:115
# text = The Wallachian revolutionaries were the first to adopt the blue, yellow and red tricolour as the national flag, which included the motto "Justice, Fraternity" (Dreptate, Frăție) to symbolise the bond between Wallachians and Moldavians.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Wallachian	Wallachian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	revolutionaries	revolutionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	adopt	adopt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	tricolour	tricolour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	motto	motto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Fraternity	fraternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Dreptate	Dreptate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Frăție	Frăție	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	symbolise	symbolise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bond	bond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	between	between	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Wallachians	Wallachian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	Moldavians	Moldavian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Wallachian revolutionaries |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **adopt** | to-infinitive | the Wallachian revolutionaries *not said here* | the blue tricolour |  |  |  | as the national flag | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tricolour=Theme as flag=Attribute |
| 3 | **include** | past | the national flag | the motto and Justice and Fraternity |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motto=Theme |
| 4 | **symbolise** | to-infinitive | the national flag *not said here* | the bond |  |  |  | between Wallachians and Moldavians | 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, «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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