South Ossetia, sentence 168
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 politicians reacted positively and said Russian law would permit (parts of) foreign nations to join the federation.
Who acts: Russian politicians, Russian law · What happens: react, say, permit, join · To what, where: parts, federation · 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 (Russian politicians, Russian law), 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 politicians | amod |
| 2 | politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reacted | nsubj |
| 3 | reacted | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | positively | positively | ADV | _ | 3 reacted | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reacted | conj |
| 7 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 law | amod |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 permit | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 permit | aux |
| 10 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 parts | punct |
| 12 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 permit | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 nations | case |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 of | punct |
| 15 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nations | amod |
| 16 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 parts | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 join | mark |
| 18 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 permit | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 federation | det |
| 20 | federation | federation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 join | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reacted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | react | past | Russian politicians | positively property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Russian politicians not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | permit | would | Russian law | parts of foreign nations | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer part=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | join not said to happen | to-infinitive | Russian law not said here | the federation | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent federation=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «South Ossetia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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