South Ossetia, sentence 181
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.
South Ossetia covers an area of about 3900 km², separated by the mountains from the more populous North Ossetia (which is a republic within Russia) and extending southwards almost to the Mtkvari river in Georgia.
Who acts: South, North Ossetia · What happens: cover, separate, be, extend · To what, where: area, republic, Mtkvari river
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 (South, North Ossetia), 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 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 covers | nsubj |
| 2 | Ossetia | Ossetia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 South | flat |
| 3 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 area | det |
| 5 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covers | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ² | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 3900 | advmod |
| 8 | 3900 | 3900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 km | nummod |
| 9 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ² | compound |
| 10 | ² | ² | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 area | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 separated | punct |
| 12 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 area | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 mountains | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mountains | det |
| 15 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 separated | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 populous | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 populous | det |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 populous | amod |
| 19 | populous | populace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 separated | obl |
| 20 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ossetia | compound |
| 21 | Ossetia | Ossetia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 populous | appos |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 republic | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 republic | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 republic | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 republic | det |
| 26 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Ossetia | appos |
| 27 | within | within | ADP | _ | 28 Russia | case |
| 28 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 republic | nmod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 republic | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 extending | cc |
| 31 | extending | extend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 separated | conj |
| 32 | southwards | southwards | ADV | _ | 31 extending | advmod |
| 33 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 37 river | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 river | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 river | det |
| 36 | Mtkvari | Mtkvari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 river | compound |
| 37 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 extending | obl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 Georgia | case |
| 39 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 river | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 covers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | South | a area of km ² | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent area=Destination | ||||
| 2 | separate | participle | a area of km ² not said here | by the mountains; from the more populous | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from populace=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | North Ossetia | a republic | within Russia | tree rules | |||
| 4 | extend | gerund | the Mtkvari river in Georgia | southwards property | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to river=Recipient |
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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