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title: According to an Eastern tradition, Simon the Zealot died in Abkhazia… — Abkhazia · tree and pragmatics
description: According to an Eastern tradition, Simon the Zealot died in Abkhazia during a missionary trip and was buried in Nicopsis; his mortal remains were later transferred to Anacopia. Who acts: Simon. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abkhazia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abkhazia, sentence 29

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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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According to an Eastern tradition, Simon the Zealot died in Abkhazia during a missionary trip and was buried in Nicopsis; his mortal remains were later transferred to Anacopia.

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**Who acts:** Simon · **What happens:** accord, die, bury, transfer · **To what, where:** Nicopsis, mortal remains, Anacopia

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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 (Simon), 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:29
# text = According to an Eastern tradition, Simon the Zealot died in Abkhazia during a missionary trip and was buried in Nicopsis; his mortal remains were later transferred to Anacopia.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Zealot	Zealot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Abkhazia	Abkhazia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	during	during	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Nicopsis	Nicopsis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Anacopia	Anacopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** | past | Simon |  |  |  | during a missionary trip | accord a Eastern tradition; in Abkhazia | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in abkhazia=Attribute |
| 3 | **bury** | past · passive | Simon *not said here* |  |  | Nicopsis |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in nicopsis=Destination |
| 4 | **transfer** | past · passive |  | Abkhazia's mortal remains | Anacopia |  |  | late *property* | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to anacopia=Recipient |

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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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