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title: Colonists from the Holy Roman Empire—the Transylvanian Saxons' ances… — Romania · tree and pragmatics
description: Colonists from the Holy Roman Empire—the Transylvanian Saxons' ancestors—came to the province in the 1150s. Who acts: Colonists. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Romania» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Romania, sentence 71

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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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Colonists from the Holy Roman Empire—the Transylvanian Saxons' ancestors—came to the province in the 1150s.

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**Who acts:** Colonists · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** 1150s

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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 (Colonists), 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:71
# text = Colonists from the Holy Roman Empire—the Transylvanian Saxons' ancestors—came to the province in the 1150s.
1	Colonists	colonist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	6	compound	_	_
5	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Transylvanian	Transylvanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Saxons	Saxon	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	1150s	1150	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Colonists from the Holy Roman Empire |  |  | the 1150s |  | to the province; the Transylvanian Saxons's ancestors *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to province=Initial\_Location |

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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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