South Ossetia, sentence 252

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However, Eduard Kokoity, the then president of South Ossetia, later stated that South Ossetia would not give up its independence by joining Russia: "We are not going to say no to our independence, which has been achieved at the expense of many lives; South Ossetia has no plans to join Russia."

Who acts: Eduard, South Ossetia, We, South · What happens: state, not give up, join, not go, say, achieve · To what, where: independence, Russia, no, expense, plans · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Eduard, South Ossetia, We, South), 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	However	however	ADV	_	14 stated	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	Eduard	Eduard	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 stated	nsubj
4	Kokoity	Kokoity	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Eduard	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 president	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 president	det
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 president	advmod
8	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Eduard	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Ossetia	case
10	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ossetia	compound
11	Ossetia	Ossetia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 president	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Eduard	punct
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 stated	advmod
14	stated	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 give	mark
16	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Ossetia	compound
17	Ossetia	Ossetia	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 give	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 give	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 give	advmod
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stated	ccomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 give	compound:prt
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 independence	nmod:poss
23	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 joining	mark
25	joining	join	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 give	advcl
26	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 joining	obj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 going	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 going	punct
29	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 going	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 going	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 going	advmod
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 stated	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 say	mark
34	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 going	xcomp
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 say	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 independence	case
37	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 independence	nmod:poss
38	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 say	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 achieved	punct
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 achieved	nsubj:pass
41	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 achieved	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 achieved	aux:pass
43	achieved	achieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 independence	acl:relcl
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 expense	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 expense	det
46	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 achieved	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 lives	case
48	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 lives	amod
49	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 expense	nmod
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 has	punct
51	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 has	nsubj
52	Ossetia	Ossetia	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 South	flat
53	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 stated	conj
54	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	55 plans	det
55	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 has	obj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 join	mark
57	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 plans	acl
58	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 join	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 has	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	past	Eduard				however, late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not give up	would	South Ossetia	choice's independence				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Source
3	join	gerund	South Ossetia not said here	Russia				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent russia=Patient
4	not go in a quote	present · progressive	We					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	no	our independence			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to independence=Recipient
6	achieve in a quote	present · perfect · passive		our independence		the expense of many lives		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
7	have in a quote	present	South	no plans				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
8	join in a quote	to-infinitive	South not said here	Russia				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent russia=Patient

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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South Ossetia, sentence 252