South Ossetia, sentence 182
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.
More than 89% of South Ossetia lies over 1000 m above sea level, and its highest point is Mount Khalatsa at 3938 m above sea level.
Who acts: highest point, level · What happens: lie over, be, point · To what, where: 1000 m, sea level, Mount
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 (highest point, level), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 89 | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | 89 | 89 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 % | nummod |
| 4 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 8 lies | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Ossetia | case |
| 6 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ossetia | compound |
| 7 | Ossetia | Ossetia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 % | nmod |
| 8 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 1000 | advmod |
| 10 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 m | nummod |
| 11 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lies | obj |
| 12 | above | above | ADP | _ | 14 level | case |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 level | compound |
| 14 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lies | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Mount | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Mount | cc |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 point | nmod:poss |
| 18 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 point | amod |
| 19 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Mount | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Mount | cop |
| 21 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lies | parataxis |
| 22 | Khalatsa | Khalatsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Mount | flat |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 m | case |
| 24 | 3938 | 3938 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 m | nummod |
| 25 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lies | obl |
| 26 | above | above | ADP | _ | 28 level | case |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 level | compound |
| 28 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 m | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie over | present | 1000 m | sea level | at 3938 m above sea level | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location m=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | level's highest point | Mount | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | point | level | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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