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title: President of France Nicolas Sarkozy negotiated a ceasefire agreement… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: President of France Nicolas Sarkozy negotiated a ceasefire agreement on 12 August 2008. Who acts: Nicolas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Ossetia, sentence 155

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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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President of France Nicolas Sarkozy negotiated a ceasefire agreement on 12 August 2008.

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**Who acts:** Nicolas · **What happens:** negotiate · **To what, where:** ceasefire agreement, 12

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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 (Nicolas), 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:155
# text = President of France Nicolas Sarkozy negotiated a ceasefire agreement on 12 August 2008.
1	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	Nicolas	Nicolas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Sarkozy	Sarkozy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	negotiated	negotiate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	ceasefire	ceasefire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
12	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **negotiate** | past | Nicolas  President of France | a ceasefire agreement |  | 12  August |  |  | 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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