South Ossetia, sentence 292
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 South Ossetian authorities planned to improve finances by boosting the local production of flour and thus reducing the need for flour imports.
What happens: plan, improve, boost, reduce, produce · To what, where: South Ossetian authorities, finances, local production, need, flour
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: 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 | 4 authorities | det |
| 2 | South | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 authorities | amod |
| 3 | Ossetian | ossetian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 authorities | amod |
| 4 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 authorities | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 improve | mark |
| 7 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 planned | xcomp |
| 8 | finances | finances | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 improve | obj |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 boosting | mark |
| 10 | boosting | boost | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 improve | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 production | det |
| 12 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 production | amod |
| 13 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boosting | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 flour | case |
| 15 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 production | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 reducing | cc |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 18 reducing | advmod |
| 18 | reducing | reduce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 boosting | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 need | det |
| 20 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reducing | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 imports | case |
| 22 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 imports | compound |
| 23 | imports | import | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 reducing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 authorities | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | participle | the South Ossetian authorities not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | improve not said to happen | to-infinitive | finances | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent finances=Patient | |||||
| 3 | boost | gerund | the local production of flour | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent production=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reduce | gerund | the need | for flour imports; thus property | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer need=Patient | ||||
| 6 | produce | flour | nom production «act transitive»: of=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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