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title: More than 89% of South Ossetia lies over 1000 m above sea level, and… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: More than 89% of South Ossetia lies over 1000 m above sea level, and its highest point is Mount Khalatsa at 3938 m above sea level. Who acts: highest point, level. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Ossetia, sentence 182

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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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More than 89% of South Ossetia lies over 1000 m above sea level, and its highest point is Mount Khalatsa at 3938 m above sea level.

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**Who acts:** highest point, level · **What happens:** lie over, be, point · **To what, where:** 1000 m, sea level, Mount

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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 (highest point, level), 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:182
# text = More than 89% of South Ossetia lies over 1000 m above sea level, and its highest point is Mount Khalatsa at 3938 m above sea level.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	89	89	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Ossetia	Ossetia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	above	above	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
22	Khalatsa	Khalatsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	3938	3938	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
26	above	above	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie over** | present |  | 1000 m |  | sea level |  | at 3938 m above sea level | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location m=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | level's highest point | Mount |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **point** |  | level |  |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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