--- title: The official language is Romanian, a Romance language (the most wide… — Romania · tree and pragmatics description: The official language is Romanian, a Romance language (the most widely spoken of the Eastern Romance branch), which presents a consistent degree of similarity to Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian, but shares many features equally with the rest of the Western Romance languages, specific --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Romania/335/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Romania](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Romania/) / 335 # Romania, sentence 335 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. The official language is Romanian, a Romance language (the most widely spoken of the Eastern Romance branch), which presents a consistent degree of similarity to Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian, but shares many features equally with the rest of the Western Romance languages, specifically Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan. **Who acts:** official language, Romance language · **What happens:** be, speak, present, share · **To what, where:** Romanian, consistent degree, many features · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (official language, Romance language), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:335 # text = The official language is Romanian, a Romance language (the most widely spoken of the Eastern Romance branch), which presents a consistent degree of similarity to Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian, but shares many features equally with the rest of the Western Romance languages, specifically Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 Romanian Romanian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Romance romance NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 13 advmod _ _ 13 widely widely ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 Eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 Romance romance NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 presents present VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 consistent consistent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 degree degree NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 similarity similarity NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Aromanian Aromanian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Megleno Megleno PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Romanian Romanian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 Istro Istro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 Romanian Romanian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 shares share VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 43 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 features feature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 45 equally equally ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 51 Western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 52 Romance romance NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 specifically specifically ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 56 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 62 Portuguese portuguese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 Catalan Catalan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the official language | Romanian | | | | a Romance language *appos* | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | | | | | | of the Eastern Romance branch; widely *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **present** | present | a Romance language | a consistent degree of similarity to Aromanian and Megleno and Romanian | | | | Istro Romanian *conj* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent degree=Theme | | 4 | **share** | present | | many features | | | | with the rest of the Western Romance languages; Catalan *obl*; equally *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 334](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Romania/334/) - next →: [sentence 336](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Romania/336/) - ↑ back to [Romania](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Romania/)