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title: According to Arrian, the Abasgoi and Apsilae peoples were nominal Ro… — Abkhazia · tree and pragmatics
description: According to Arrian, the Abasgoi and Apsilae peoples were nominal Roman subjects, and there was a small Roman outpost in Dioscurias. Who acts: Abasgoi peoples, nominal Roman subjects. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abkhazia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abkhazia, sentence 37

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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 Arrian, the Abasgoi and Apsilae peoples were nominal Roman subjects, and there was a small Roman outpost in Dioscurias.

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**Who acts:** Abasgoi peoples, nominal Roman subjects · **What happens:** accord, be · **To what, where:** nominal Roman subjects, small Roman outpost, Dioscurias

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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 (Abasgoi peoples, nominal Roman subjects), 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:37
# text = According to Arrian, the Abasgoi and Apsilae peoples were nominal Roman subjects, and there was a small Roman outpost in Dioscurias.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Arrian	Arrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	Abasgoi	Abasgoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Apsilae	Apsilae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	nominal	nominal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	outpost	outpost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Dioscurias	Dioscurias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **is a** | past | the Abasgoi peoples | nominal Roman subjects |  |  |  | accord Arrian | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | nominal Roman subjects | a small Roman outpost |  | Dioscurias |  |  | 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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