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title: Georgian government officials have stated South Ossetian key securit… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: Georgian government officials have stated South Ossetian key security positions are occupied by (former) Russian security officials, while some political researchers speak of institutions being outsourced to the Russian Federation. Who acts: Georgian government officials, South Ossetian security pos
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# South Ossetia, sentence 129

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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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Georgian government officials have stated South Ossetian key security positions are occupied by (former) Russian security officials, while some political researchers speak of institutions being outsourced to the Russian Federation.

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**Who acts:** Georgian government officials, South Ossetian security positions, political researchers · **What happens:** state, be, speak, outsource · **To what, where:** institutions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Georgian government officials, South Ossetian security positions, political researchers), 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:129
# text = Georgian government officials have stated South Ossetian key security positions are occupied by (former) Russian security officials, while some political researchers speak of institutions being outsourced to the Russian Federation.
1	Georgian	georgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	South	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	Ossetian	ossetian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	researchers	researcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	outsourced	outsource	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	amod	_	_
33	Federation	Federation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Georgian government officials |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | South Ossetian security positions |  |  |  |  | by former Russian security officials; occupied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | some political researchers |  |  |  |  | of institutions | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **outsource** | gerund · passive |  | institutions *not said here* |  |  |  | to the Russian Federation | tree rules |

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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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