--- title: It "regretted" the attempts to alter pre-war demographic composition… — Abkhazia · tree and pragmatics description: It "regretted" the attempts to alter pre-war demographic composition and called for the "rapid development of a timetable to ensure the prompt voluntary return of all refugees and internally displaced persons to their homes." Who acts: refugees. 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It "regretted" the attempts to alter pre-war demographic composition and called for the "rapid development of a timetable to ensure the prompt voluntary return of all refugees and internally displaced persons to their homes." **Who acts:** refugees · **What happens:** regret, alter, call, ensure, displace, develop · **To what, where:** cleansing, pre-war demographic composition, prompt voluntary return, persons, timetable · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (refugees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:403 # text = It "regretted" the attempts to alter pre-war demographic composition and called for the "rapid development of a timetable to ensure the prompt voluntary return of all refugees and internally displaced persons to their homes." 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 regretted regret VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 attempts attempt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 alter alter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 pre-war pre-war ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 demographic demographic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 composition composition NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 rapid rapid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 timetable timetable NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 ensure ensure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 prompt prompt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 voluntary voluntary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 refugees refugee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 internally internally ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 displaced displace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **regret** *in a quote* | participle · passive | | cleansing | | | | the attempts *obj* | tree rules | | 2 | **alter** | to-infinitive | | pre-war demographic composition | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent composition=Patient | | 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | for the rapid development of a timetable | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for development=Recipient | | 4 | **ensure** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the prompt voluntary return of all refugees | | | | | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition return=Theme | | 5 | **displace** *in a quote* | past | | persons | | | | to Refugees's homes; internally *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **develop** *in a quote* | | | a timetable | | | | | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **return** *in a quote* | | all refugees | | | | | | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 402](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Abkhazia/402/) - next →: [sentence 404](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Abkhazia/404/) - ↑ back to [Abkhazia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Abkhazia/)