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title: In 1792 the Russian army built fortifications to guard the western b… — Tiraspol · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1792 the Russian army built fortifications to guard the western border near a Moldavian village named Sucleia. Who acts: Russian army. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tiraspol» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tiraspol, sentence 20

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From Wikipedia, [«Tiraspol»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiraspol), 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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In 1792 the Russian army built fortifications to guard the western border near a Moldavian village named Sucleia.

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**Who acts:** Russian army · **What happens:** build, guard, name · **To what, where:** fortifications, 1792, western border, Moldavian village

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tiraspol». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian army), 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:Tiraspol:20
# text = In 1792 the Russian army built fortifications to guard the western border near a Moldavian village named Sucleia.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1792	1792	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fortifications	fortification	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Moldavian	Moldavian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	Sucleia	Sucleia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the Russian army | fortifications |  | 1792 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortification=Product |
| 2 | **guard** | to-infinitive | the Russian army *not said here* | the western border |  | a Moldavian village |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  | a Moldavian village *not said here* |  |  |  | Sucleia *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Tiraspol», 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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