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title: According to Russian military expert Pavel Felgenhauer, the Ossetian… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: According to Russian military expert Pavel Felgenhauer, the Ossetian provocation was aimed at triggering the Georgian response, which was needed as a pretext for premeditated Russian military invasion. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Ossetia, sentence 144

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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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According to Russian military expert Pavel Felgenhauer, the Ossetian provocation was aimed at triggering the Georgian response, which was needed as a pretext for premeditated Russian military invasion.

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**What happens:** accord, aim, trigger, need, premeditate · **To what, where:** Ossetian provocation, Georgian response

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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: 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:144
# text = According to Russian military expert Pavel Felgenhauer, the Ossetian provocation was aimed at triggering the Georgian response, which was needed as a pretext for premeditated Russian military invasion.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
6	Pavel	Pavel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Felgenhauer	Felgenhauer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Ossetian	ossetian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	provocation	provocation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	triggering	trigger	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Georgian	georgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pretext	pretext	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	premeditated	premeditate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
28	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **aim** | past · passive |  | the Ossetian provocation |  |  |  | accord Russian military expert | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **trigger** | gerund |  | the Georgian response |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition response=Patient |
| 4 | **need** | past · passive |  | the Georgian response |  |  |  | as a pretext; for premeditated Russian military invasion | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **premeditate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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