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title: The South Ossetian authorities planned to improve finances by boosti… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
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# South Ossetia, sentence 292

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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 South Ossetian authorities planned to improve finances by boosting the local production of flour and thus reducing the need for flour imports.

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**What happens:** plan, improve, boost, reduce, produce · **To what, where:** South Ossetian authorities, finances, local production, need, flour

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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: 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:292
# text = The South Ossetian authorities planned to improve finances by boosting the local production of flour and thus reducing the need for flour imports.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	South	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Ossetian	ossetian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	finances	finances	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obj	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	boosting	boost	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	reducing	reduce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	imports	import	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | participle |  | the South Ossetian authorities *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **improve** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | finances |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent finances=Patient |
| 3 | **boost** | gerund |  | the local production of flour |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent production=Theme |
| 4 | **reduce** | gerund |  | the need |  |  |  | for flour imports; thus *property* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer need=Patient |
| 6 | **produce** |  |  | flour |  |  |  |  | nom production «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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