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title: South Ossetia covers an area of about 3900 km², separated by the mou… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: South Ossetia covers an area of about 3900 km², separated by the mountains from the more populous North Ossetia (which is a republic within Russia) and extending southwards almost to the Mtkvari river in Georgia. Who acts: South, North Ossetia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its depe
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# South Ossetia, sentence 181

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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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South Ossetia covers an area of about 3900 km², separated by the mountains from the more populous North Ossetia (which is a republic within Russia) and extending southwards almost to the Mtkvari river in Georgia.

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**Who acts:** South, North Ossetia · **What happens:** cover, separate, be, extend · **To what, where:** area, republic, Mtkvari river

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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 (South, North Ossetia), 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:181
# text = South Ossetia covers an area of about 3900 km², separated by the mountains from the more populous North Ossetia (which is a republic within Russia) and extending southwards almost to the Mtkvari river in Georgia.
1	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Ossetia	Ossetia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	3900	3900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	²	²	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	populous	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Ossetia	Ossetia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
27	within	within	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
32	southwards	southwards	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Mtkvari	Mtkvari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present | South | a area of km ² |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent area=Destination |
| 2 | **separate** | participle |  | a area of km ² *not said here* |  |  |  | by the mountains; from the more populous | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from populace=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | North Ossetia | a republic |  |  |  | within Russia | tree rules |
| 4 | **extend** | gerund |  |  | the Mtkvari river in Georgia |  |  | southwards *property* | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to river=Recipient |

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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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