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title: On 20 March 1919, the newly elected Abkhazian People's Council adopt… — Abkhazia · tree and pragmatics
description: On 20 March 1919, the newly elected Abkhazian People's Council adopted the "Act on Abkhazian Autonomy", which formalised the establishment of the Abkhazian Autonomy within the Georgian Democratic Republic. Who acts: elected Abkhazian Council, Abkhazian Autonomy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abkhazia» 
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# Abkhazia, sentence 119

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From Wikipedia, [«Abkhazia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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On 20 March 1919, the newly elected Abkhazian People's Council adopted the "Act on Abkhazian Autonomy", which formalised the establishment of the Abkhazian Autonomy within the Georgian Democratic Republic.

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**Who acts:** elected Abkhazian Council, Abkhazian Autonomy · **What happens:** elect, adopt, formalis, establish · **To what, where:** Act, Abkhazian Autonomy, establishment

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Abkhazia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elected Abkhazian Council, Abkhazian Autonomy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Abkhazia:119
# text = On 20 March 1919, the newly elected Abkhazian People's Council adopted the "Act on Abkhazian Autonomy", which formalised the establishment of the Abkhazian Autonomy within the Georgian Democratic Republic.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	1919	1919	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
9	Abkhazian	Abkhazian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	People	People	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Abkhazian	Abkhazian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Autonomy	Autonomy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	formalised	formalis	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Abkhazian	Abkhazian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Autonomy	Autonomy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	within	within	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Georgian	georgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	Democratic	Democratic	PROPN	NNP	_	34	compound	_	_
34	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **adopt** | past | People's elected Abkhazian Council | the Act |  | Abkhazian Autonomy | march |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme |
| 3 | **formalis** | past | Abkhazian Autonomy | the establishment of the Abkhazian Autonomy |  |  |  | within the Georgian Democratic Republic | tree rules |
| 4 | **establish** |  |  | the Abkhazian Autonomy |  |  |  |  | nom establishment «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Abkhazia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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