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title: In early 1988, the PFM demanded that the Soviet authorities declare… — Transnistria · tree and pragmatics
description: In early 1988, the PFM demanded that the Soviet authorities declare Moldovan the only state language, return to the use of the Latin alphabet, and recognise the shared ethnic identity of Moldovans and Romanians. Who acts: PFM, Soviet authorities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Transnistria» with its dep
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# Transnistria, sentence 47

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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 early 1988, the PFM demanded that the Soviet authorities declare Moldovan the only state language, return to the use of the Latin alphabet, and recognise the shared ethnic identity of Moldovans and Romanians.

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**Who acts:** PFM, Soviet authorities · **What happens:** demand, declare, return, recognise, share, use · **To what, where:** early 1988, Moldovan, shared ethnic identity, Latin alphabet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (PFM, Soviet 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:47
# text = In early 1988, the PFM demanded that the Soviet authorities declare Moldovan the only state language, return to the use of the Latin alphabet, and recognise the shared ethnic identity of Moldovans and Romanians.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	PFM	PFM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	declare	declare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
13	Moldovan	Moldovan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
19	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
32	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Moldovans	Moldovan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Romanians	Romanian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | the PFM |  |  | early 1988 |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | present | the Soviet authorities | Moldovan |  |  |  | the only state language *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent moldovan=Theme language=Attribute |
| 3 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the use of the Latin alphabet *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to use=Result |
| 4 | **recognise** | infinitive |  | the shared ethnic identity of Moldovans and Romanians |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer identity=Stimulus |
| 5 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **use** |  |  | the Latin alphabet |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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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