South Ossetia, sentence 298
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.
In March 2009, it was reported that most of the production facilities were standing idle and were in need of repairs.
Who acts: most · What happens: report, stand, be · To what, where: harvest, need
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 (most), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 March | case |
| 2 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reported | obl |
| 3 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 March | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 March | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reported | aux:pass |
| 7 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 standing | mark |
| 9 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 standing | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 facilities | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 facilities | det |
| 12 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 facilities | compound |
| 13 | facilities | facility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 most | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 standing | aux |
| 15 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 reported | ccomp |
| 16 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 standing | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 need | cc |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 need | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 need | case |
| 20 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 idle | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 repairs | case |
| 22 | repairs | repair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 need | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | harvest | march | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | most of the production facilities | idle property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | most of the production facilities not said here | need | of repairs | 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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