--- title: Although the sea made serious inroads upon the territory of Dioscuri… — Sukhumi · tree and pragmatics description: Although the sea made serious inroads upon the territory of Dioscurias, it continued to flourish and became one of the key cities in the realm of Mithridates VI of Pontus in the 2nd century BC and supported his cause until the end. Who acts: sea, BC. 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Although the sea made serious inroads upon the territory of Dioscurias, it continued to flourish and became one of the key cities in the realm of Mithridates VI of Pontus in the 2nd century BC and supported his cause until the end. **Who acts:** sea, BC · **What happens:** make, continue, flourish, become, support, cause · **To what, where:** serious inroads, cause This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sukhumi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, BC), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Sukhumi:33 # text = Although the sea made serious inroads upon the territory of Dioscurias, it continued to flourish and became one of the key cities in the realm of Mithridates VI of Pontus in the 2nd century BC and supported his cause until the end. 1 Although although SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 5 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 inroads inroad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 upon upon ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Dioscurias Dioscurias PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 flourish flourish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 xcomp _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 key key ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 realm realm NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Mithridates mithridate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 VI VI NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 28 flat _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Pontus Pontus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 2nd 2nd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 35 amod _ _ 35 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 36 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 supported support VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 until until ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the sea | serious inroads | | | | upon the territory of Dioscurias | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inroad=Product | | 2 | **continue** | past | Sea | | | | | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **flourish** | to-infinitive | Sea *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **become** | past | Sea *not said here* | | | | | one of the key cities in the realm of Mithridates in the 2nd century *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **support** | past | Sea *not said here* | BC's cause | | | until the end | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus | | 6 | **cause** | | BC | | | | | | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Sukhumi», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sukhumi/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sukhumi/34/) - ↑ back to [Sukhumi](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sukhumi/)