South Ossetia, sentence 129
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.
Georgian government officials have stated South Ossetian key security positions are occupied by (former) Russian security officials, while some political researchers speak of institutions being outsourced to the Russian Federation.
Who acts: Georgian government officials, South Ossetian security positions, political researchers · What happens: state, be, speak, outsource · To what, where: institutions · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Georgian government officials, South Ossetian security positions, political researchers), 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 | Georgian | georgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 officials | amod |
| 2 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 officials | compound |
| 3 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stated | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stated | aux |
| 5 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | South | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 positions | amod |
| 7 | Ossetian | ossetian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 positions | amod |
| 8 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 security | compound |
| 9 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 positions | compound |
| 10 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 occupied | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 occupied | cop |
| 12 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stated | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 officials | case |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 former | punct |
| 15 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 officials | amod |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 former | punct |
| 17 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 officials | amod |
| 18 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 officials | compound |
| 19 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 occupied | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 speak | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 speak | mark |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 researchers | det |
| 23 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 researchers | amod |
| 24 | researchers | researcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 speak | nsubj |
| 25 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stated | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 institutions | case |
| 27 | institutions | institution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 speak | obl |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 outsourced | aux:pass |
| 29 | outsourced | outsource | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 institutions | acl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Federation | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Federation | det |
| 32 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Federation | amod |
| 33 | Federation | Federation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 outsourced | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | present · perfect | Georgian government officials | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | South Ossetian security positions | by former Russian security officials; occupied property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | some political researchers | of institutions | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | outsource | gerund · passive | institutions not said here | to the Russian Federation | 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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