Khartoum, sentence 121
From Wikipedia, «Khartoum», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
This has changed as major economic developments take place in other parts of the country, like oil exploration in the south, the Giad Industrial Complex in Al Jazirah state and White Nile Sugar Project in Central Sudan, and the Merowe Dam in the North.
Who acts: This, major economic developments · What happens: change, take · To what, where: Merowe Dam, place, other parts
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Khartoum». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, major economic developments), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | aux |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 5 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 developments | amod |
| 6 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 developments | amod |
| 7 | developments | development | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | nsubj |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | advcl |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 parts | case |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 parts | amod |
| 12 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 parts | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 exploration | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 exploration | case |
| 18 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 exploration | compound |
| 19 | exploration | exploration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 south | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 south | det |
| 22 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 exploration | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Complex | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Complex | det |
| 25 | Giad | Giad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Complex | compound |
| 26 | Industrial | industrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Complex | amod |
| 27 | Complex | complex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 exploration | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 state | case |
| 29 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 state | compound |
| 30 | Jazirah | Jazirah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Al | flat |
| 31 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Complex | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Nile | cc |
| 33 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Nile | amod |
| 34 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Complex | conj |
| 35 | Sugar | Sugar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Nile | flat |
| 36 | Project | Project | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Nile | flat |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 Sudan | case |
| 38 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Sudan | flat |
| 39 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Complex | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Dam | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Dam | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Dam | det |
| 43 | Merowe | Merowe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Dam | compound |
| 44 | Dam | Dam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 North | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 North | det |
| 47 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Dam | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present · perfect | This | the Merowe Dam in the North | oil exploration in the south and the Giad Industrial Complex in Al state in Central Sudan and White Nile parataxis | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | take | present | major economic developments | place | other parts of the country | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in part=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Khartoum», 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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