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title: According to the Transnistrian authorities, the short name of the st… — Transnistria · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the Transnistrian authorities, the short name of the state is Pridnestrovie (Приднестровье; Nistrenia,; Придністров'я), meaning "[land] by the Dniester". Who acts: short name, Pridnestrovie. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Transnistria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Transnistria, sentence 28

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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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According to the Transnistrian authorities, the short name of the state is Pridnestrovie (Приднестровье; Nistrenia,; Придністров'я), meaning "\[land\] by the Dniester".

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**Who acts:** short name, Pridnestrovie · **What happens:** accord, be, mean, name · **To what, where:** Pridnestrovie, land, state

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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 (short name, Pridnestrovie), 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:28
# text = According to the Transnistrian authorities, the short name of the state is Pridnestrovie (Приднестровье; Nistrenia,; Придністров'я), meaning "[land] by the Dniester".
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Transnistrian	transnistrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Pridnestrovie	Pridnestrovie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Приднестровье	Приднестровье	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Nistrenia	Nistrenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Придністров'я	Придністров'я	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Dniester	Dniester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the short name of the state | Pridnestrovie and Приднестровье and Nistrenia |  |  |  | accord the Transnistrian authorities; Приднестровье *conj*; Nistrenia *conj*; Придністров'я *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund | Pridnestrovie and Приднестровье and Nistrenia *not said here* | land |  |  |  | by the Dniester | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | the state |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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