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title: In November 2005, Ion Iovcev, the principal of a Romanian-language s… — Transnistria · tree and pragmatics
description: In November 2005, Ion Iovcev, the principal of a Romanian-language school in Transnistria and active advocate for human rights as well as a critic of the Transnistrian leadership, received threatening calls that he attributed to his criticism of the separatist regime. Who acts: Transnistria. A sente
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# Transnistria, sentence 229

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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 November 2005, Ion Iovcev, the principal of a Romanian-language school in Transnistria and active advocate for human rights as well as a critic of the Transnistrian leadership, received threatening calls that he attributed to his criticism of the separatist regime.

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**Who acts:** Transnistria · **What happens:** receive, threaten, attribute · **To what, where:** calls

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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 (Transnistria), 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:229
# text = In November 2005, Ion Iovcev, the principal of a Romanian-language school in Transnistria and active advocate for human rights as well as a critic of the Transnistrian leadership, received threatening calls that he attributed to his criticism of the separatist regime.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
3	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Ion	Ion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	Iovcev	Iovcev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	principal	principal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	Romanian	Romanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Transnistria	Transnistria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	advocate	advocate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	28	cc	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	critic	critic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Transnistrian	transnistrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	leadership	leadership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
34	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	threatening	threaten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	_
36	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obj	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	criticism	criticism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	separatist	separatist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past |  |  |  |  | november |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **threaten** | gerund |  | calls |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus call=Experiencer |
| 3 | **attribute** | past | Transnistria | calls |  |  |  | to Transnistria's criticism of the separatist regime | tree rules |

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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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