South Ossetia, sentence 125
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.
A wave of violence erupted between Georgian peacekeepers and South Ossetian militiamen and freelance fighters from Russia.
What happens: erupt, wave · To what, where: violence, Georgian peacekeepers, wave
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wave | det |
| 2 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 violence | case |
| 4 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wave | nmod |
| 5 | erupted | erupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 violence | acl |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 peacekeepers | case |
| 7 | Georgian | georgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 peacekeepers | amod |
| 8 | peacekeepers | peacekeeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 erupted | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 militiamen | cc |
| 10 | South | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 militiamen | amod |
| 11 | Ossetian | ossetian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 militiamen | amod |
| 12 | militiamen | militiaman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 peacekeepers | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fighters | cc |
| 14 | freelance | freelance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fighters | compound |
| 15 | fighters | fighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 peacekeepers | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Russia | case |
| 17 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fighters | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erupt | participle | violence not said here | Georgian peacekeepers and South Ossetian militiamen and freelance fighters from Russia | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between peacekeeper=Location | ||||
| 3 | wave | violence | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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