South Ossetia, sentence 120

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.

Since 2004, tensions began to rise as the Georgian authorities strengthened their efforts to bring the region back under their rule, after it succeeded in Adjara.

Who acts: tensions, Georgian authorities, tension, authorities · What happens: begin, rise, strengthen, bring back, succeed, rule · To what, where: efforts, region, rule, Adjara

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: who acts (tensions, Georgian authorities, tension, authorities), 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	Since	since	ADP	_	2 2004	case
2	2004	2004	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 began	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 2004	punct
4	tensions	tension	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rise	mark
7	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 strengthened	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 authorities	det
10	Georgian	georgian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 authorities	amod
11	authorities	authority	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 strengthened	nsubj
12	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rise	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 efforts	nmod:poss
14	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 strengthened	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bring	mark
16	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 strengthened	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 region	det
18	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	obj
19	back	back	ADV	_	16 bring	advmod
20	under	under	ADP	_	22 rule	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rule	nmod:poss
22	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 succeeded	punct
24	after	after	SCONJ	_	26 succeeded	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 succeeded	nsubj
26	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Adjara	case
28	Adjara	Adjara	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 succeeded	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	tensions			since 2004	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	rise	to-infinitive	tensions not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	strengthen	past	the Georgian authorities	authorities's efforts			tree rules
4	bring back	to-infinitive	the Georgian authorities not said here	the region	authorities's rule		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent region=Theme
5	succeed	past	tension		Adjara		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in adjara=Eventuality
6	rule		authorities = authority				nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «South Ossetia», 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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South Ossetia, sentence 120