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title: Tibilov furthermore suggested holding a referendum on joining the Ru… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: Tibilov furthermore suggested holding a referendum on joining the Russian Federation prior to April 2017, which would lead to a united "Ossetia–Alania". Who acts: Tibilov, April. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Ossetia, sentence 259

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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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Tibilov furthermore suggested holding a referendum on joining the Russian Federation prior to April 2017, which would lead to a united "Ossetia–Alania".

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**Who acts:** Tibilov, April · **What happens:** suggest, hold, join, lead · **To what, where:** referendum, Russian Federation

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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 (Tibilov, April), 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:259
# text = Tibilov furthermore suggested holding a referendum on joining the Russian Federation prior to April 2017, which would lead to a united "Ossetia–Alania".
1	Tibilov	Tibilov	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	furthermore	furthermore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	joining	join	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	amod	_	_
11	Federation	Federation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	united	united	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Ossetia	Ossetia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Alania	Alania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | Tibilov |  |  |  |  | furthermore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | Tibilov *not said here* | a referendum |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent referendum=Theme |
| 3 | **join** | gerund | Tibilov *not said here* | the Russian Federation |  |  | april |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent federation=Patient |
| 4 | **lead** | would | April  2017 |  |  |  |  | to a united Ossetia | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to ossetia=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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