South Ossetia, sentence 259
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.
Tibilov furthermore suggested holding a referendum on joining the Russian Federation prior to April 2017, which would lead to a united "Ossetia–Alania".
Who acts: Tibilov, April · What happens: suggest, hold, join, lead · To what, where: referendum, Russian Federation
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 (Tibilov, April), 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 | Tibilov | Tibilov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 suggested | nsubj |
| 2 | furthermore | furthermore | ADV | _ | 3 suggested | advmod |
| 3 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 suggested | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 referendum | det |
| 6 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holding | obj |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 joining | mark |
| 8 | joining | join | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 holding | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Federation | det |
| 10 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Federation | amod |
| 11 | Federation | Federation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 joining | obj |
| 12 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 April | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 prior | fixed |
| 14 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 joining | obl |
| 15 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 April | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lead | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lead | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lead | aux |
| 19 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 April | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Ossetia | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Ossetia | det |
| 22 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Ossetia | amod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ossetia | punct |
| 24 | Ossetia | Ossetia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lead | obl |
| 25 | – | – | PUNCT | _ | 26 Alania | punct |
| 26 | Alania | Alania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Ossetia | appos |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Alania | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past | Tibilov | furthermore property | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | Tibilov not said here | a referendum | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent referendum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | join | gerund | Tibilov not said here | the Russian Federation | april | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent federation=Patient | |||
| 4 | lead | would | April 2017 | to a united Ossetia | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to ossetia=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.
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