South Ossetia, sentence 54
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.
During uprisings in 1919 and 1920, the Ossetians were covertly supported by Soviet Russia, but even so, were defeated.
Who acts: Soviet Russia · What happens: support, defeat · To what, where: Ossetians
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 (Soviet Russia), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 2 uprisings | case |
| 2 | uprisings | uprising | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 supported | obl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1919 | case |
| 4 | 1919 | 1919 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 uprisings | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 1920 | cc |
| 6 | 1920 | 1920 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 1919 | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 uprisings | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Ossetians | det |
| 9 | Ossetians | Ossetian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 supported | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 supported | aux:pass |
| 11 | covertly | covertly | ADV | _ | 12 supported | advmod |
| 12 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Russia | case |
| 14 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Russia | compound |
| 15 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 supported | obl:agent |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 defeated | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 defeated | cc |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 so | advmod |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 defeated | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 defeated | punct |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 defeated | aux:pass |
| 22 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 supported | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 supported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | support | past · passive | Soviet Russia | the Ossetians | during uprisings in 1919 | covertly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | defeat | past · passive | Soviet Russia not said here | 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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