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title: Several high-ranking officials in Abkhazia have been appointed from… — Abkhazia · tree and pragmatics
description: Several high-ranking officials in Abkhazia have been appointed from Russia despite having no prior ties to the region. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abkhazia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abkhazia, sentence 323

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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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Several high-ranking officials in Abkhazia have been appointed from Russia despite having no prior ties to the region.

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**What happens:** appoint, have · **To what, where:** Several ranking officials, Russia, prior ties

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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: 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:323
# text = Several high-ranking officials in Abkhazia have been appointed from Russia despite having no prior ties to the region.
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ranking	ranking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Abkhazia	Abkhazia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
16	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | present · perfect · passive |  | Several ranking officials in Abkhazia |  | Russia |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  | no prior ties |  |  |  | to the region | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=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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