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title: The first attempt to enter into relations with Russia was made by Pr… — Abkhazia · tree and pragmatics
description: The first attempt to enter into relations with Russia was made by Prince Kelesh-Bey in 1803, shortly after the incorporation of eastern Georgia into the expanding Tsarist empire in 1801. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abkhazia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abkhazia, sentence 66

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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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The first attempt to enter into relations with Russia was made by Prince Kelesh-Bey in 1803, shortly after the incorporation of eastern Georgia into the expanding Tsarist empire in 1801.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** enter, make, expand, incorporate · **To what, where:** first attempt, relations, 1803, eastern Georgia, expanding Tsarist empire

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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 (Prince), 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:66
# text = The first attempt to enter into relations with Russia was made by Prince Kelesh-Bey in 1803, shortly after the incorporation of eastern Georgia into the expanding Tsarist empire in 1801.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	Kelesh	Kelesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Bey	Bey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1803	1803	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	incorporation	incorporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	expanding	expand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
30	Tsarist	Tsarist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	1801	1801	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | to-infinitive | Prince and Bey *not said here* | the first attempt *not said here* |  | relations with Russia |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into relation=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive | Prince and Bey | the first attempt |  | 1803 | after the incorporation of eastern Georgia into the expanding Tsarist empire in 1801 |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 3 | **expand** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **incorporate** |  |  | eastern Georgia |  | the expanding Tsarist empire in 1801 |  |  | nom incorporation «act transitive»: of=patient into=place |

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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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