---
title: The surviving Alans retreated into the mountains of the central Cauc… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: The surviving Alans retreated into the mountains of the central Caucasus and gradually migrated south, across the Caucasus Mountains into the Kingdom of Georgia. Who acts: surviving Alans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Ossetia/24/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [South Ossetia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Ossetia/) / 24

# South Ossetia, sentence 24

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The surviving Alans retreated into the mountains of the central Caucasus and gradually migrated south, across the Caucasus Mountains into the Kingdom of Georgia.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** surviving Alans · **What happens:** survive, retreat, migrate · **To what, where:** mountains, Caucasus Mountains

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (surviving Alans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:24
# text = The surviving Alans retreated into the mountains of the central Caucasus and gradually migrated south, across the Caucasus Mountains into the Kingdom of Georgia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	surviving	survive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	Alans	Alan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	retreated	retreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	migrated	migrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	south	south	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	across	across	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **retreat** | past | the surviving Alans |  |  | the mountains of the central Caucasus |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into mountain=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **migrate** | participle | the surviving Alans *not said here* |  |  | the Caucasus Mountains into the Kingdom of Georgia |  | gradually, south *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Ossetia/23/)
- next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Ossetia/25/)
- ↑ back to [South Ossetia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Ossetia/)