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title: According to the Tskhinvali election authorities, the referendum tur… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the Tskhinvali election authorities, the referendum turned out a majority for independence from Georgia where 99% of South Ossetian voters supported independence and the turnout for the vote was 95%. Who acts: referendum. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tre
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# South Ossetia, sentence 237

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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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According to the Tskhinvali election authorities, the referendum turned out a majority for independence from Georgia where 99% of South Ossetian voters supported independence and the turnout for the vote was 95%.

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**Who acts:** referendum · **What happens:** accord, turn out, support · **To what, where:** majority, Georgia, independence

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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 (referendum), 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:237
# text = According to the Tskhinvali election authorities, the referendum turned out a majority for independence from Georgia where 99% of South Ossetian voters supported independence and the turnout for the vote was 95%.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Tskhinvali	Tskhinvali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
19	99	99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Ossetian	Ossetian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	voters	voter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
26	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	turnout	turnout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	95	95	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn out** | past | the referendum | a majority |  | Georgia |  | accord the Tskhinvali election authorities; for independence | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent majority=Theme from georgia=Source |
| 3 | **support** | past |  | independence |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer independence=Stimulus |

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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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