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title: It was sponsored by a Russian nationalist politician Sergei Baburin,… — Abkhazia · tree and pragmatics
description: It was sponsored by a Russian nationalist politician Sergei Baburin, a Russian deputy who met Vladislav Ardzinba and argued that he was not that much sure that Abkhazia was part of Georgia. Who acts: Russian nationalist politician, Russian deputy, Vladislav, Abkhazia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abkh
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# Abkhazia, sentence 200

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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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It was sponsored by a Russian nationalist politician Sergei Baburin, a Russian deputy who met Vladislav Ardzinba and argued that he was not that much sure that Abkhazia was part of Georgia.

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**Who acts:** Russian nationalist politician, Russian deputy, Vladislav, Abkhazia · **What happens:** sponsor, meet, argue, not be, be · **To what, where:** resolution, Vladislav, part · **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 (Russian nationalist politician, Russian deputy, Vladislav, Abkhazia), 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:200
# text = It was sponsored by a Russian nationalist politician Sergei Baburin, a Russian deputy who met Vladislav Ardzinba and argued that he was not that much sure that Abkhazia was part of Georgia.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	sponsored	sponsor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	nationalist	nationalist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	politician	politician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	Sergei	Sergei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	Baburin	Baburin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	deputy	deputy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	Vladislav	Vladislav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	Ardzinba	Ardzinba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	argued	argue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	that	that	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	Abkhazia	Abkhazia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	ccomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **sponsor** | past · passive | a Russian nationalist politician | resolution |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **meet** | past | a Russian deputy | Vladislav |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vladislav=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | past | a Russian deputy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | Vladislav |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Abkhazia | part |  |  |  | of Georgia | tree rules |

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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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