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title: It is a narrow valley stretching north–south along the bank of the D… — Transnistria · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a narrow valley stretching north–south along the bank of the Dniester river, which forms a natural boundary along most of the de facto border with Moldova. Who acts: border, narrow valley, Dniester river. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Transnistria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Transnistria, sentence 89

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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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It is a narrow valley stretching north–south along the bank of the Dniester river, which forms a natural boundary along most of the de facto border with Moldova.

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**Who acts:** border, narrow valley, Dniester river · **What happens:** be, stretch, form · **To what, where:** narrow valley, bank, natural boundary

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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 (border, narrow valley, Dniester river), 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:89
# text = It is a narrow valley stretching north–south along the bank of the Dniester river, which forms a natural boundary along most of the de facto border with Moldova.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	north	north	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	south	south	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Dniester	Dniester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	boundary	boundary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	along	along	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	compound	_	_
28	facto	facto	X	FW	_	29	compound	_	_
29	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Moldova	Moldova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | border | a narrow valley |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stretch** | gerund | a narrow valley *not said here* |  |  | the bank of the Dniester river |  | along most of the de facto border with Moldova; north, south *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=Location |
| 3 | **form** | present | the Dniester river | a natural boundary |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boundary=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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