South Ossetia, sentence 155
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.
President of France Nicolas Sarkozy negotiated a ceasefire agreement on 12 August 2008.
Who acts: Nicolas · What happens: negotiate · To what, where: ceasefire agreement, 12
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 (Nicolas), 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 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Nicolas | nmod:desc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 France | case |
| 3 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 President | nmod |
| 4 | Nicolas | Nicolas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 negotiated | nsubj |
| 5 | Sarkozy | Sarkozy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Nicolas | flat |
| 6 | negotiated | negotiate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 agreement | det |
| 8 | ceasefire | ceasefire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 agreement | compound |
| 9 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 negotiated | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 12 | case |
| 11 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 negotiated | obl |
| 12 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 12 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 12 | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 negotiated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | negotiate | past | Nicolas President of France | a ceasefire agreement | 12 August | 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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