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title: According to a US Department of State report for 2006, "Both of the… — Transnistria · tree and pragmatics
description: According to a US Department of State report for 2006, "Both of the region's major newspapers were controlled by the authorities. Who acts: authorities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Transnistria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Transnistria, sentence 335

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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 a US Department of State report for 2006, "Both of the region's major newspapers were controlled by the authorities.

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**Who acts:** authorities · **What happens:** accord, control · **To what, where:** major newspapers

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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:335
# text = According to a US Department of State report for 2006, "Both of the region's major newspapers were controlled by the authorities.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **control** *in a quote* | past · passive | the authorities | both region's major newspapers |  |  |  | accord State report  a US Department for 2006 | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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