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title: Russian politicians reacted positively and said Russian law would pe… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: Russian politicians reacted positively and said Russian law would permit (parts of) foreign nations to join the federation. Who acts: Russian politicians, Russian law. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Ossetia, sentence 168

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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 politicians reacted positively and said Russian law would permit (parts of) foreign nations to join the federation.

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**Who acts:** Russian politicians, Russian law · **What happens:** react, say, permit, join · **To what, where:** parts, federation · **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 (Russian politicians, Russian law), 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:168
# text = Russian politicians reacted positively and said Russian law would permit (parts of) foreign nations to join the federation.
1	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reacted	react	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	positively	positively	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	federation	federation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **react** | past | Russian politicians |  |  |  |  | positively *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Russian politicians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **permit** | would | Russian law | parts of foreign nations |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer part=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **join** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Russian law *not said here* | the federation |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent federation=Patient |

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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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