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title: He also conquered the Greek colonies in Dobruja and the neighbouring… — Romania · tree and pragmatics
description: He also conquered the Greek colonies in Dobruja and the neighbouring peoples as far as the Middle Danube and the Balkan Mountains between around 55 and 44 BC. Who acts: Burebista. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Romania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Romania, sentence 33

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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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He also conquered the Greek colonies in Dobruja and the neighbouring peoples as far as the Middle Danube and the Balkan Mountains between around 55 and 44 BC.

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**Who acts:** Burebista · **What happens:** conquer · **To what, where:** Greek colonies, Dobruja

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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 (Burebista), 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:33
# text = He also conquered the Greek colonies in Dobruja and the neighbouring peoples as far as the Middle Danube and the Balkan Mountains between around 55 and 44 BC.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Dobruja	Dobruja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Danube	Danube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Balkan	Balkan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	around	around	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	_
28	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past | Burebista | the Greek colonies and the neighbouring peoples |  | Dobruja |  | as the Middle Danube and the Balkan Mountains; between 55  BC | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=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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