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title: The South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, established by Soviet authorit… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: The South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, established by Soviet authorities in Moscow in 1922, declared independence from the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in September 1990. Who acts: Ossetian Autonomous Oblast. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Ossetia, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«South Ossetia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Ossetia), 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 South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, established by Soviet authorities in Moscow in 1922, declared independence from the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in September 1990.

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**Who acts:** Ossetian Autonomous Oblast · **What happens:** establish, declare · **To what, where:** Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, Moscow, independence, Georgian Soviet Socialist

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Ossetia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ossetian Autonomous Oblast), 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:South_Ossetia:10
# text = The South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, established by Soviet authorities in Moscow in 1922, declared independence from the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in September 1990.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ossetian	Ossetian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Autonomous	autonomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Oblast	oblast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1922	1922	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	Georgian	georgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Socialist	socialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | participle |  | the Ossetian Autonomous Oblast *not said here* |  | Moscow |  | by Soviet authorities; in 1922 | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Ossetian Autonomous Oblast | independence |  | the Georgian Soviet Socialist | september |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute |

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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, «South Ossetia», 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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