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title: This shift towards the EU market continued to grow in 2016. — Transnistria · tree and pragmatics
description: This shift towards the EU market continued to grow in 2016. Who acts: shift. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Transnistria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Transnistria, sentence 283

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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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This shift towards the EU market continued to grow in 2016.

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**Who acts:** shift · **What happens:** continue, grow · **To what, where:** 2016

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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 (shift), 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:283
# text = This shift towards the EU market continued to grow in 2016.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	shift	shift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	EU	EU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | this shift towards the EU market |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | this shift towards the EU market *not said here* |  |  | 2016 |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2016=Location |

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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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