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title: After the Russian Empire noticed the failure of its Russification po… — Abkhazia · tree and pragmatics
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# Abkhazia, sentence 88

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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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After the Russian Empire noticed the failure of its Russification policy in Georgia, it attempted to deny the existence of the Georgian nation, splitting it up in the 1897 Russian census into various sub-ethnic groups and promoting distinct identities for them, with the goal of preventing unified nationalism and rebellion.

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**Who acts:** Russian Empire, failure, goal, Russification policy, Georgian nation · **What happens:** notice, attempt, deny, split up, promote, prevent · **To what, where:** failure, existence, 1897 Russian census, distinct identities, unified nationalism

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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 (Russian Empire, failure, goal, Russification policy), 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:88
# text = After the Russian Empire noticed the failure of its Russification policy in Georgia, it attempted to deny the existence of the Georgian nation, splitting it up in the 1897 Russian census into various sub-ethnic groups and promoting distinct identities for them, with the goal of preventing unified nationalism and rebellion.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Russification	Russification	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	deny	deny	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Georgian	georgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	splitting	split	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	1897	1897	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
32	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	sub-ethnic	sub-ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	promoting	promote	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
40	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	identities	identity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
48	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
49	preventing	prevent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	acl	_	_
50	unified	unified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	nationalism	nationalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | the Russian Empire | the failure of failure's Russification policy in Georgia |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer failure=Stimulus |
| 2 | **attempt** | past | failure |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **deny** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | failure *not said here* | the existence of the Georgian nation |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent existence=Eventuality |
| 4 | **split up** | gerund | failure *not said here* | existence |  | the 1897 Russian census |  | into various sub-ethnic groups | tree rules |
| 5 | **promote** | gerund | failure *not said here* | distinct identities |  |  |  | for identities *= identity*; with the goal | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Theme |
| 6 | **prevent** | gerund | the goal *not said here* | unified nationalism and rebellion |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer nationalism=Theme |
| 7 | **fail** |  | failure's Russification policy in Georgia |  |  |  |  |  | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **exist** |  | the Georgian nation |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state 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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