South Ossetia, sentence 24
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 surviving Alans retreated into the mountains of the central Caucasus and gradually migrated south, across the Caucasus Mountains into the Kingdom of Georgia.
Who acts: surviving Alans · What happens: survive, retreat, migrate · To what, where: mountains, Caucasus Mountains
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 (surviving Alans), 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 | 3 Alans | det |
| 2 | surviving | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Alans | amod |
| 3 | Alans | Alan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 retreated | nsubj |
| 4 | retreated | retreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountains | det |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 retreated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Caucasus | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Caucasus | det |
| 10 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Caucasus | amod |
| 11 | Caucasus | Caucasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mountains | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 migrated | cc |
| 13 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 14 migrated | advmod |
| 14 | migrated | migrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 retreated | conj |
| 15 | south | south | ADV | _ | 14 migrated | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Mountains | punct |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 20 Mountains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Mountains | det |
| 19 | Caucasus | Caucasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Mountains | compound |
| 20 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 migrated | obl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 Kingdom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Kingdom | det |
| 23 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Mountains | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Georgia | case |
| 25 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Kingdom | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 retreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | retreat | past | the surviving Alans | the mountains of the central Caucasus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | migrate | participle | the surviving Alans not said here | the Caucasus Mountains into the Kingdom of Georgia | gradually, south property | tree rules |
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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