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title: Russian forces left the buffer areas bordering Abkhazia and South Os… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: Russian forces left the buffer areas bordering Abkhazia and South Ossetia on 8 October and the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia assumed authority over the buffer areas. Who acts: Russian forces, buffer areas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pragmati
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# South Ossetia, sentence 159

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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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Russian forces left the buffer areas bordering Abkhazia and South Ossetia on 8 October and the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia assumed authority over the buffer areas.

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**Who acts:** Russian forces, buffer areas · **What happens:** leave, border, assume · **To what, where:** Abkhazia, authority, buffer areas

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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 (Russian forces, buffer areas), 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:159
# text = Russian forces left the buffer areas bordering Abkhazia and South Ossetia on 8 October and the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia assumed authority over the buffer areas.
1	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	buffer	buffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
7	bordering	border	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	Abkhazia	Abkhazia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	Ossetia	Ossetia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Monitoring	Monitoring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Mission	Mission	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
24	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	buffer	buffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Russian forces |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **border** | gerund | the buffer areas *not said here* | Abkhazia and South |  |  | october |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme abkhazia=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **assume** | past | the buffer areas | authority |  | the buffer areas |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Theme |

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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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