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title: The OSCE mission spokesman Claus Neukirch spoke about this situation… — Transnistria · tree and pragmatics
description: The OSCE mission spokesman Claus Neukirch spoke about this situation: "There is often talk about sale of armaments from Transnistria, but there is no convincing evidence". Who acts: Claus, convincing evidence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Transnistria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Transnistria, sentence 212

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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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The OSCE mission spokesman Claus Neukirch spoke about this situation: "There is often talk about sale of armaments from Transnistria, but there is no convincing evidence".

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**Who acts:** Claus, convincing evidence · **What happens:** speak, be, talk · **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 (Claus, convincing evidence), 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:212
# text = The OSCE mission spokesman Claus Neukirch spoke about this situation: "There is often talk about sale of armaments from Transnistria, but there is no convincing evidence".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	OSCE	OSCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spokesman	spokesman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Neukirch	Neukirch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	armaments	armament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Transnistria	Transnistria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
28	convincing	convincing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Claus  the OSCE mission spokesman |  |  |  |  | about this situation | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | about sale of armaments from Transnistria; often *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about sale=Topic |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no convincing evidence |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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