South Ossetia, sentence 144
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.
According to Russian military expert Pavel Felgenhauer, the Ossetian provocation was aimed at triggering the Georgian response, which was needed as a pretext for premeditated Russian military invasion.
What happens: accord, aim, trigger, need, premeditate · To what, where: Ossetian provocation, Georgian response
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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 expert | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 expert | amod |
| 4 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 expert | amod |
| 5 | expert | expert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 aimed | obl |
| 6 | Pavel | Pavel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 expert | appos |
| 7 | Felgenhauer | Felgenhauer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pavel | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 expert | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 provocation | det |
| 10 | Ossetian | ossetian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 provocation | amod |
| 11 | provocation | provocation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 aimed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 aimed | aux:pass |
| 13 | aimed | aim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 15 triggering | mark |
| 15 | triggering | trigger | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 aimed | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 response | det |
| 17 | Georgian | georgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 response | amod |
| 18 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 triggering | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 needed | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 needed | aux:pass |
| 22 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 response | acl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 pretext | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pretext | det |
| 25 | pretext | pretext | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 needed | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 invasion | case |
| 27 | premeditated | premeditate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 invasion | amod |
| 28 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 invasion | amod |
| 29 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 invasion | amod |
| 30 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 needed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 aimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | aim | past · passive | the Ossetian provocation | accord Russian military expert | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trigger | gerund | the Georgian response | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition response=Patient | |||||
| 4 | need | past · passive | the Georgian response | as a pretext; for premeditated Russian military invasion | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | premeditate | participle | 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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