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title: Those who are not ethnic Abkhazians are eligible for citizenship if… — Abkhazia · tree and pragmatics
description: Those who are not ethnic Abkhazians are eligible for citizenship if they lived in Abkhazia for at least five years prior to the adoption of the act of independence in October 1999. Who acts: Those, Abkhazians, independence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abkhazia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Abkhazia, sentence 581

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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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Those who are not ethnic Abkhazians are eligible for citizenship if they lived in Abkhazia for at least five years prior to the adoption of the act of independence in October 1999.

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**Who acts:** Those, Abkhazians, independence · **What happens:** not be, live, adopt, act · **To what, where:** Abkhazia, act

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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 (Those, Abkhazians, independence), 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:581
# text = Those who are not ethnic Abkhazians are eligible for citizenship if they lived in Abkhazia for at least five years prior to the adoption of the act of independence in October 1999.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
5	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Abkhazians	Abkhazian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	eligible	eligible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	citizenship	citizenship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Abkhazia	Abkhazia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	nmod	_	_
19	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Those |  |  |  |  | for citizenship; who *nsubj*; ethnic Abkhazians *nsubj*; eligible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Abkhazians *= abkhazian* |  |  | Abkhazia | year |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in abkhazia=Location |
| 3 | **adopt** |  |  | the act of independence in October  1999 |  |  |  |  | nom adoption «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **act** |  | independence in October  1999 |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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