South Ossetia, sentence 192
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.
The foothills and mountainous areas (including the Greater Caucasus Mountains) experience cool, wet summers and snowy winters, with snow cover often exceeding two metres in many regions.
Who acts: snow cover, foothills · What happens: include, exceed, experience · To what, where: two metres, experience
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 (snow cover, foothills), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 foothills | det |
| 2 | foothills | foothill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 experience | nmod:poss |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 areas | cc |
| 4 | mountainous | mountainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 areas | amod |
| 5 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 foothills | conj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mountains | punct |
| 7 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Mountains | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mountains | det |
| 9 | Greater | Greater | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mountains | compound |
| 10 | Caucasus | Caucasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mountains | compound |
| 11 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 areas | nmod |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mountains | punct |
| 13 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 summers | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cool | punct |
| 16 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 summers | amod |
| 17 | summers | summer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 experience | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 winters | cc |
| 19 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 winters | amod |
| 20 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 summers | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cover | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 cover | case |
| 23 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cover | compound |
| 24 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 experience | conj |
| 25 | often | often | ADV | _ | 26 exceeding | advmod |
| 26 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 cover | acl |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 metres | nummod |
| 28 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 exceeding | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 regions | case |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 regions | amod |
| 31 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 exceeding | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 experience | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | exceed | gerund | snow cover not said here | two metres | in many regions; often property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot metre=Theme in region=Attribute | |||
| 4 | experience | the foothills and mountainous areas include the Greater Caucasus Mountains | nom experience «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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