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title: Authorities reportedly continued to use torture and arbitrary arrest… — Transnistria · tree and pragmatics
description: Authorities reportedly continued to use torture and arbitrary arrest and detention ... Who acts: Authorities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Transnistria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Transnistria, sentence 218

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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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Authorities reportedly continued to use torture and arbitrary arrest and detention ...

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**Who acts:** Authorities · **What happens:** continue, use · **To what, where:** torture

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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 (Authorities), 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:218
# text = Authorities reportedly continued to use torture and arbitrary arrest and detention ...
1	Authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	reportedly	reportedly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	torture	torture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	arbitrary	arbitrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	arrest	arrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	detention	detention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Authorities |  |  |  |  | reportedly *property* | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive | Authorities *not said here* | torture and arbitrary arrest and detention |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torture=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, «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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