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title: In addition, the Georgian-language form Ṭpilisi was modernized on th… — Tbilisi · tree and pragmatics
description: In addition, the Georgian-language form Ṭpilisi was modernized on the basis of a proposal by Georgian linguists; the ancient Georgian component ტფილი (ṭpili, 'warm') was replaced by the newer თბილი (tbili). Who acts: Georgian linguists, newer თბილი. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tbilisi» with its depen
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# Tbilisi, sentence 16

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From Wikipedia, [«Tbilisi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tbilisi), 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 addition, the Georgian-language form Ṭpilisi was modernized on the basis of a proposal by Georgian linguists; the ancient Georgian component ტფილი (ṭpili, 'warm') was replaced by the newer თბილი (tbili).

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**Who acts:** Georgian linguists, newer თბილი · **What happens:** modernize, replace · **To what, where:** Georgian language form, addition, ancient Georgian component ტფილი

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tbilisi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Georgian linguists, newer თბილი), 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:Tbilisi:16
# text = In addition, the Georgian-language form Ṭpilisi was modernized on the basis of a proposal by Georgian linguists; the ancient Georgian component ტფილი (ṭpili, 'warm') was replaced by the newer თბილი (tbili).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Georgian	georgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	Ṭpilisi	Ṭpilisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	modernized	modernize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Georgian	georgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	linguists	linguist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	Georgian	georgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	component	component	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	ტფილი	ტფილი	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	ṭpili	ṭpili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	newer	new	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	amod	_	_
39	თბილი	თბილი	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	tbili	tbili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **modernize** | past · passive | Georgian linguists | the Georgian language form |  | addition |  | on the basis of a proposal | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **replace** | past · passive | the newer თბილი | the ancient Georgian component ტფილი |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |

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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, «Tbilisi», 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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