Ukraine, sentence 198
From Wikipedia, «Ukraine», 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 first months of the conflict with the Russian-backed separatists were fluid, but Russian forces then started an open invasion in Donbas on 24 August 2014.
Who acts: first months, Russian forces · What happens: back, be, start · To what, where: open invasion, Donbas
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ukraine». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first months, Russian forces), 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 | 3 months | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 months | amod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fluid | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 conflict | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 conflict | det |
| 6 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 months | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 separatists | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 separatists | det |
| 9 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 backed | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Russian | punct |
| 11 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 separatists | amod |
| 12 | separatists | separatist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 conflict | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fluid | cop |
| 14 | fluid | fluid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 started | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 started | cc |
| 17 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 forces | amod |
| 18 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 started | nsubj |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 started | advmod |
| 20 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fluid | conj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 invasion | det |
| 22 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 invasion | amod |
| 23 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 started | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Donbas | case |
| 25 | Donbas | Donbas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 invasion | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 August | case |
| 27 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 August | nummod |
| 28 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 started | obl |
| 29 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 August | flat |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fluid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the first months of the conflict with the backed separatists | fluid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | start | past | Russian forces | a open invasion | Donbas | then; august | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invasion=Eventuality |
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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