Khartoum, sentence 72
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.
The camps were watched over by heavily armed security guards, many relief agencies were banned from assisting, and "the nearest food was at a market four miles away, a vast journey in the desert heat".
Who acts: armed security guards, nearest food · What happens: watch over, ban, be · To what, where: camps, many relief agencies, assisting, market · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (armed security guards, nearest food), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 camps | det |
| 2 | camps | camp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 watched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 watched | aux:pass |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 watched | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 guards | case |
| 7 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 8 armed | advmod |
| 8 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 guards | amod |
| 9 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guards | compound |
| 10 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 watched | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 banned | punct |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 agencies | amod |
| 13 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 agencies | compound |
| 14 | agencies | agency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 banned | aux:pass |
| 16 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 watched | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 assisting | case |
| 18 | assisting | assisting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 banned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 market | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 market | cc |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 market | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 food | det |
| 23 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 food | amod |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 market | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 market | cop |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 market | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 market | det |
| 28 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | parataxis |
| 29 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 miles | nummod |
| 30 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 away | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 market | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 journey | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 journey | det |
| 34 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 journey | amod |
| 35 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 market | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 heat | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 heat | det |
| 38 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 heat | compound |
| 39 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 journey | nmod |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 heat | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch over | past · passive | armed security guards | the camps | over property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ban | past · passive | many relief agencies | assisting | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from assisting=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the nearest food | a market and a vast journey in the desert heat | a vast journey in the desert heat conj; away property | tree rules |
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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