The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 9
In 2024 food experts reported famine in a big camp in Darfur, in western Sudan, and news reports said the city of El Fasher fell to the RSF in late 2025 after a long siege.
Who acts: food experts, news reports, city · What happens: report, say, fall · To what, where: famine, 2024, late 2025 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food experts, news reports, city), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2024 | case |
| 2 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 reported | obl |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 experts | compound |
| 4 | experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reported | nsubj |
| 5 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reported | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 camp | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 camp | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 camp | amod |
| 10 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reported | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Darfur | case |
| 12 | Darfur | Darfur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 camp | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sudan | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Sudan | case |
| 15 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Sudan | amod |
| 16 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Darfur | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 19 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reports | compound |
| 20 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reported | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 El | case |
| 25 | El | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 city | nmod |
| 26 | Fasher | Fasher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 El | flat |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 RSF | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 RSF | det |
| 30 | RSF | RSF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 2025 | case |
| 32 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 2025 | amod |
| 33 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 fell | obl |
| 34 | after | after | ADP | _ | 37 siege | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 siege | det |
| 36 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 siege | amod |
| 37 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past | food experts | famine | 2024 | in a big camp in Darfur and western Sudan | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent famine=Patient | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | news reports | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the city of El | late 2025 | after a long siege | to the RSF | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 2025=Location |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:politics:028-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others.lesson:9.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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