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title: During uprisings in 1919 and 1920, the Ossetians were covertly suppo… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: During uprisings in 1919 and 1920, the Ossetians were covertly supported by Soviet Russia, but even so, were defeated. Who acts: Soviet Russia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Ossetia, sentence 54

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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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During uprisings in 1919 and 1920, the Ossetians were covertly supported by Soviet Russia, but even so, were defeated.

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**Who acts:** Soviet Russia · **What happens:** support, defeat · **To what, where:** Ossetians

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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 (Soviet Russia), 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:54
# text = During uprisings in 1919 and 1920, the Ossetians were covertly supported by Soviet Russia, but even so, were defeated.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	uprisings	uprising	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1919	1919	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Ossetians	Ossetian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	covertly	covertly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **support** | past · passive | Soviet Russia | the Ossetians |  |  | during uprisings in 1919 | covertly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **defeat** | past · passive | Soviet Russia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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