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title: Shevardnadze announced that the decision of the Abkhaz faction was "… — Abkhazia · tree and pragmatics
description: Shevardnadze announced that the decision of the Abkhaz faction was "absolutely unexpected" and that it was made without considering the opinion of the majority of population in Abkhazia. Who acts: Shevardnadze, decision. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abkhazia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abkhazia, sentence 186

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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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Shevardnadze announced that the decision of the Abkhaz faction was "absolutely unexpected" and that it was made without considering the opinion of the majority of population in Abkhazia.

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**Who acts:** Shevardnadze, decision · **What happens:** announce, be, make, consider, decide, opine · **To what, where:** decision, opinion, Abkhaz faction, majority · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Shevardnadze, decision), 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:186
# text = Shevardnadze announced that the decision of the Abkhaz faction was "absolutely unexpected" and that it was made without considering the opinion of the majority of population in Abkhazia.
1	Shevardnadze	Shevardnadze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Abkhaz	Abkhaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	faction	faction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Abkhazia	Abkhazia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Shevardnadze |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the decision of the Abkhaz faction |  |  |  |  | absolutely, unexpected *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  | decision |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **consider** | gerund |  | the opinion of the majority of population in Abkhazia |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent opinion=Attribute |
| 5 | **decide** |  |  | the Abkhaz faction |  |  |  |  | nom decision «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **opine** |  |  | the majority of population in Abkhazia |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition 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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