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title: A movement for unification of Moldova and Romania appeared in the ea… — Romania · tree and pragmatics
description: A movement for unification of Moldova and Romania appeared in the early 1990s after both countries achieved emancipation from communist rule but lost ground in the mid-1990s when a new Moldovan government pursued an agenda towards preserving a Moldovan republic independent of Romania. Who acts: move
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# Romania, sentence 231

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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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A movement for unification of Moldova and Romania appeared in the early 1990s after both countries achieved emancipation from communist rule but lost ground in the mid-1990s when a new Moldovan government pursued an agenda towards preserving a Moldovan republic independent of Romania.

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**Who acts:** movement, countries, new Moldovan government · **What happens:** appear, achieve, lose, pursue, preserve, unify · **To what, where:** early 1990s, emancipation, communist rule, ground, mid-1990s, agenda

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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 (movement, countries, new Moldovan government), 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:231
# text = A movement for unification of Moldova and Romania appeared in the early 1990s after both countries achieved emancipation from communist rule but lost ground in the mid-1990s when a new Moldovan government pursued an agenda towards preserving a Moldovan republic independent of Romania.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	unification	unification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Moldova	Moldova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Romania	Romania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	achieved	achieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	emancipation	emancipation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mid-1990s	mid-1990	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	Moldovan	moldovan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	agenda	agenda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	towards	towards	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	preserving	preserve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Moldovan	moldovan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Romania	Romania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | a movement for unification of Moldova and Romania |  |  | the early 1990s |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1990s=Location |
| 2 | **achieve** | past | both countries | emancipation |  | communist rule |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emancipation=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lose** | past | a movement for unification of Moldova and Romania *not said here* | ground |  | the mid-1990s |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pursue** | past | a new Moldovan government | a agenda |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agenda=Theme |
| 5 | **preserve** | gerund | a new Moldovan government *not said here* | a Moldovan republic |  |  |  | independent *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **unify** |  |  | Moldova and Romania |  |  |  |  | nom unification «event 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, «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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