South Ossetia, sentence 1
From Wikipedia, «South Ossetia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
South Ossetia, formally known as the State of Alania since 2017, or originally the Republic of South Ossetia, is a partially recognised state in the South Caucasus.
What happens: know, recognise, be · To what, where: South Ossetia, recognised state, South Caucasus
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Ossetia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ossetia | compound |
| 2 | Ossetia | Ossetia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
| 4 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 5 known | advmod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 State | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 State | det |
| 8 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Alania | case |
| 10 | Alania | Alania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 State | nmod |
| 11 | since | since | ADP | _ | 12 2017 | case |
| 12 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 known | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Republic | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 Republic | cc |
| 15 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 17 Republic | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Republic | det |
| 17 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Ossetia | case |
| 19 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ossetia | compound |
| 20 | Ossetia | Ossetia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Republic | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 state | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 state | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 state | det |
| 24 | partially | partially | ADV | _ | 25 recognised | advmod |
| 25 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 state | amod |
| 26 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Republic | appos |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Caucasus | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Caucasus | det |
| 29 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Caucasus | compound |
| 30 | Caucasus | Caucasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 state | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle · passive | South Ossetia | since 2017 | as the State of Alania; the Republic of South Ossetia obl; formally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as state=Attribute | |||
| 2 | recognise | participle | partially property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a recognised state | the South Caucasus | tree rules |
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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