South Ossetia, sentence 32
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Ossetian peasants, who were migrating to the mountainous areas of the South Caucasus, often settled in the lands of Georgian feudal lords.
Who acts: Ossetian peasants · What happens: migrate, settle · To what, where: Ossetian peasants, lands
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 (Ossetian peasants), 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 | Ossetian | ossetian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 peasants | amod |
| 2 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 migrating | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 migrating | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 migrating | aux |
| 6 | migrating | migrate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 peasants | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 areas | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 areas | det |
| 9 | mountainous | mountainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 areas | amod |
| 10 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 migrating | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Caucasus | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Caucasus | det |
| 13 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Caucasus | compound |
| 14 | Caucasus | Caucasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 areas | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 settled | punct |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 settled | advmod |
| 17 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 lands | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lands | det |
| 20 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 settled | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 lords | case |
| 22 | Georgian | georgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lords | amod |
| 23 | feudal | feudal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lords | amod |
| 24 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lands | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | migrate | past · progressive | Ossetian peasants | to the mountainous areas of the South Caucasus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | settle | participle · passive | Ossetian peasants | the lands of Georgian feudal lords | often property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in land=Location |
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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