South Ossetia, sentence 218
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 president of the republic is elected for five years by direct popular vote, with a maximum of two consecutive terms for the same person.
Who acts: direct popular vote · What happens: elect · To what, where: president
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 (direct popular vote), 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 president | det |
| 2 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 republic | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 republic | det |
| 5 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 president | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 elected | aux:pass |
| 7 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 elected | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 vote | case |
| 12 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 vote | amod |
| 13 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 vote | amod |
| 14 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 elected | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 maximum | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 maximum | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 maximum | det |
| 18 | maximum | maximum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 elected | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 terms | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 terms | nummod |
| 21 | consecutive | consecutive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 terms | amod |
| 22 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 maximum | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 person | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 person | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 person | amod |
| 26 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 terms | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 elected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elect | present · passive | direct popular vote | the president of the republic | year | a maximum of two consecutive terms for the same person parataxis | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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