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title: Since 2004, tensions began to rise as the Georgian authorities stren… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: Since 2004, tensions began to rise as the Georgian authorities strengthened their efforts to bring the region back under their rule, after it succeeded in Adjara. Who acts: tensions, Georgian authorities, tension, authorities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pr
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# South Ossetia, sentence 120

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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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Since 2004, tensions began to rise as the Georgian authorities strengthened their efforts to bring the region back under their rule, after it succeeded in Adjara.

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**Who acts:** tensions, Georgian authorities, tension, authorities · **What happens:** begin, rise, strengthen, bring back, succeed, rule · **To what, where:** efforts, region, rule, Adjara

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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 (tensions, Georgian authorities, tension, authorities), 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:120
# text = Since 2004, tensions began to rise as the Georgian authorities strengthened their efforts to bring the region back under their rule, after it succeeded in Adjara.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	tensions	tension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Georgian	georgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Adjara	Adjara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | tensions |  |  |  | since 2004 |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **rise** | to-infinitive | tensions *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **strengthen** | past | the Georgian authorities | authorities's efforts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | the Georgian authorities *not said here* | the region |  | authorities's rule |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent region=Theme |
| 5 | **succeed** | past | tension |  |  | Adjara |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in adjara=Eventuality |
| 6 | **rule** |  | authorities *= authority* |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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, «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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