South Ossetia, sentence 48
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 1918, conflict began between the landless Ossetian peasants living in Shida Kartli (Interior Georgia), who were influenced by Bolshevism and demanded ownership of the lands they worked, and the Menshevik government backed ethnic Georgian aristocrats, who were legal owners.
Who acts: conflict, landless Ossetian peasants, Bolshevism, Menshevik government, ethnic Georgian aristocrats · What happens: begin, live, influence, demand, work, back · To what, where: 1918, Shida, ownership, lands, ethnic Georgian aristocrats, legal owners
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 (conflict, landless Ossetian peasants, Bolshevism, Menshevik government), 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 1918 | case |
| 2 | 1918 | 1918 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 began | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1918 | punct |
| 4 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 peasants | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 peasants | det |
| 8 | landless | landless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 peasants | amod |
| 9 | Ossetian | ossetian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 peasants | amod |
| 10 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 began | obl |
| 11 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 peasants | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Shida | case |
| 13 | Shida | Shida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 living | obl |
| 14 | Kartli | Kartli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Shida | flat |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Georgia | punct |
| 16 | Interior | Interior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Georgia | compound |
| 17 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Shida | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 Georgia | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 influenced | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 influenced | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 influenced | aux:pass |
| 22 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Shida | parataxis |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Bolshevism | case |
| 24 | Bolshevism | Bolshevism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 influenced | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 demanded | cc |
| 26 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 influenced | conj |
| 27 | ownership | ownership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 demanded | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 lands | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lands | det |
| 30 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ownership | nmod |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 worked | nsubj |
| 32 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lands | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 backed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 backed | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 government | det |
| 36 | Menshevik | Menshevik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 government | compound |
| 37 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 backed | nsubj |
| 38 | backed | back | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | conj |
| 39 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 aristocrats | amod |
| 40 | Georgian | georgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 aristocrats | amod |
| 41 | aristocrats | aristocrat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 backed | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 owners | punct |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 owners | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 owners | cop |
| 45 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 owners | amod |
| 46 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 aristocrats | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | conflict | 1918 | between the landless Ossetian peasants | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | the landless Ossetian peasants not said here | Shida | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shida=Location | ||||
| 3 | influence | past · passive | Bolshevism | Shida | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | past | Bolshevism not said here | ownership of the lands | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ownership=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | work | past | conflict | the lands not said here | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent land=Material | ||||
| 6 | back | past | the Menshevik government | ethnic Georgian aristocrats and legal owners | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aristocrat=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | ethnic Georgian aristocrats and legal owners | legal owners | 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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