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title: The penetration of humid air masses from the Black Sea to the west o… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: The penetration of humid air masses from the Black Sea to the west of South Ossetia is often blocked by the Likhi mountain range. Who acts: penetration, Likhi mountain range. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Ossetia, sentence 193

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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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The penetration of humid air masses from the Black Sea to the west of South Ossetia is often blocked by the Likhi mountain range.

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**Who acts:** penetration, Likhi mountain range · **What happens:** mass, block, penetrate · **To what, where:** Black Sea, humid air

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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 (penetration, Likhi mountain range), 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:193
# text = The penetration of humid air masses from the Black Sea to the west of South Ossetia is often blocked by the Likhi mountain range.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	penetration	penetration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	humid	humid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	masses	mass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Ossetia	Ossetia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Likhi	Likhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mass** | present | the penetration of humid air |  |  | the Black Sea |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **block** | present · passive | the Likhi mountain range |  |  |  |  | to the west of South Ossetia; often *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **penetrate** |  |  | humid air |  |  |  |  | nom penetration «act transitive»: of=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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