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title: In that prelude, similar unattributed clashes happened in Donbas in… — Transnistria · tree and pragmatics
description: In that prelude, similar unattributed clashes happened in Donbas in February 2022: Ukraine denied being involved in those incidents and called them a false flag operation as well. Who acts: similar unattributed clashes, Ukraine. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Transnistria» with its dependency tree and p
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# Transnistria, sentence 171

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From Wikipedia, [«Transnistria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria), 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 that prelude, similar unattributed clashes happened in Donbas in February 2022: Ukraine denied being involved in those incidents and called them a false flag operation as well.

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**Who acts:** similar unattributed clashes, Ukraine · **What happens:** unattribut, happen, deny, be, call · **To what, where:** prelude, incidents, clashes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Transnistria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (similar unattributed clashes, Ukraine), 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:Transnistria:171
# text = In that prelude, similar unattributed clashes happened in Donbas in February 2022: Ukraine denied being involved in those incidents and called them a false flag operation as well.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	prelude	prelude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	unattributed	unattribut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	clashes	clash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Donbas	Donbas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	denied	deny	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
18	involved	involved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	23	advmod	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unattribut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past | similar unattributed clashes |  |  | that prelude | february | in Donbas | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in prelude=Location |
| 3 | **deny** | past | Ukraine |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | Ukraine *not said here* |  |  | that incidents |  | involved *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **call** | past | Ukraine *not said here* | clashes *= clash* |  |  |  | a false flag operation *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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, «Transnistria», 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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