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title: The Goths' rule ended abruptly when the Huns invaded their territory… — Romania · tree and pragmatics
description: The Goths' rule ended abruptly when the Huns invaded their territory in 376, causing new waves of migrations. Who acts: rule, Huns, Goths. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Romania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Romania, sentence 46

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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 Goths' rule ended abruptly when the Huns invaded their territory in 376, causing new waves of migrations.

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**Who acts:** rule, Huns, Goths · **What happens:** end, invade, cause, rule, wave · **To what, where:** territory, 376, new waves, migrations

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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 (rule, Huns, Goths), 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:46
# text = The Goths' rule ended abruptly when the Huns invaded their territory in 376, causing new waves of migrations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Goths	Goth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	abruptly	abruptly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Huns	Hun	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	376	376	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	migrations	migration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | the Goths's rule |  |  |  |  | abruptly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **invade** | past | the Huns | Goths's territory |  | 376 |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | gerund | the Huns *not said here* | new waves of migrations |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wave=Patient |
| 4 | **rule** |  | the Goths |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **wave** |  |  | migrations |  |  |  |  | nom wave «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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