South Ossetia, sentence 159
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.
Russian forces left the buffer areas bordering Abkhazia and South Ossetia on 8 October and the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia assumed authority over the buffer areas.
Who acts: Russian forces, buffer areas · What happens: leave, border, assume · To what, where: Abkhazia, authority, buffer areas
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 (Russian forces, buffer areas), 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 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 forces | amod |
| 2 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 areas | det |
| 5 | buffer | buffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 areas | compound |
| 6 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 assumed | nsubj |
| 7 | bordering | border | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 areas | acl |
| 8 | Abkhazia | Abkhazia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bordering | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 South | cc |
| 10 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Abkhazia | conj |
| 11 | Ossetia | Ossetia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Abkhazia | flat |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 October | case |
| 13 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 October | nummod |
| 14 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bordering | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Mission | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Mission | det |
| 17 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Union | compound |
| 18 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Monitoring | compound |
| 19 | Monitoring | Monitoring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Mission | compound |
| 20 | Mission | Mission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 October | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Georgia | case |
| 22 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Mission | nmod |
| 23 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | ccomp |
| 24 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 assumed | obj |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 areas | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 areas | det |
| 27 | buffer | buffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 areas | compound |
| 28 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 assumed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Russian forces | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | border | gerund | the buffer areas not said here | Abkhazia and South | october | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme abkhazia=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | assume | past | the buffer areas | authority | the buffer areas | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Theme |
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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