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title: The more radical factions of the PFM espoused extreme anti-minority,… — Transnistria · tree and pragmatics
description: The more radical factions of the PFM espoused extreme anti-minority, ethnocentric and chauvinist positions, calling for minority populations, particularly the Slavs (mainly Russians and Ukrainians) and Gagauz, to leave or be expelled from Moldova. Who acts: radical factions. A sentence of Wikipedia'
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# Transnistria, sentence 48

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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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The more radical factions of the PFM espoused extreme anti-minority, ethnocentric and chauvinist positions, calling for minority populations, particularly the Slavs (mainly Russians and Ukrainians) and Gagauz, to leave or be expelled from Moldova.

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**Who acts:** radical factions · **What happens:** espouse, call, leave, expel · **To what, where:** extreme anti-minority, Moldova · **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 (radical factions), 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:48
# text = The more radical factions of the PFM espoused extreme anti-minority, ethnocentric and chauvinist positions, calling for minority populations, particularly the Slavs (mainly Russians and Ukrainians) and Gagauz, to leave or be expelled from Moldova.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	radical	radical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	factions	faction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	PFM	PFM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	espoused	espouse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	anti-minority	anti-minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ethnocentric	ethnocentric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	chauvinist	chauvinist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Slavs	Slav	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	Russians	Russian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	appos	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Ukrainians	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Gagauz	Gagauz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	expelled	expel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Moldova	Moldova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **espouse** | past | the radical factions of the PFM | extreme anti-minority and chauvinist positions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | the radical factions of the PFM *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for minority populations  the Slavs and Gagauz | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for population=Recipient |
| 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the radical factions of the PFM *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **expel** | infinitive · passive | the radical factions of the PFM *not said here* |  |  | Moldova |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: from moldova=Source |

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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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