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title: In March and April 1991, Soviet interior troops were reported active… — South Ossetia · tree and pragmatics
description: In March and April 1991, Soviet interior troops were reported actively disarming militias on both sides, and deterring the inter-ethnic violence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Ossetia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Ossetia, sentence 92

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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 March and April 1991, Soviet interior troops were reported actively disarming militias on both sides, and deterring the inter-ethnic violence.

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**What happens:** report, disarm, deter · **To what, where:** Soviet interior troops, militias, sides, inter ethnic violence

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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:92
# text = In March and April 1991, Soviet interior troops were reported actively disarming militias on both sides, and deterring the inter-ethnic violence.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	actively	actively	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	disarming	disarm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
14	militias	militia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	deterring	deter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | past · passive |  | Soviet interior troops |  |  | march | actively *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **disarm** | gerund |  | militias |  | both sides |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus militia=Experiencer |
| 3 | **deter** | gerund |  | the inter ethnic violence |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer violence=Eventuality |

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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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