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title: In late October 2008, President Saakashvili signed into law legislat… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: In late October 2008, President Saakashvili signed into law legislation on the occupied territories passed by the Georgian Parliament. Who acts: Saakashvili. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Ossetia, sentence 264

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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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In late October 2008, President Saakashvili signed into law legislation on the occupied territories passed by the Georgian Parliament.

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**Who acts:** Saakashvili · **What happens:** sign, pass · **To what, where:** law legislation, occupied territories

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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 (Saakashvili), 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:264
# text = In late October 2008, President Saakashvili signed into law legislation on the occupied territories passed by the Georgian Parliament.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Saakashvili	Saakashvili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	legislation	legislation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Georgian	georgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | past | Saakashvili  President |  |  | law legislation | october | on the occupied territories | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent into legislation=Destination |
| 2 | **pass** | participle |  | the occupied territories *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Georgian Parliament | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by parliament=Location |

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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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