South Sudan, sentence 140
From Wikipedia, «South Sudan», 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 constitution was signed by the President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, on Independence Day and thereby came into force.
Who acts: President · What happens: sign, come · To what, where: constitution, force
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Sudan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (President), 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 constitution | det |
| 2 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 signed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 signed | aux:pass |
| 4 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 President | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 President | det |
| 7 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 signed | obl:agent |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Sudan | case |
| 9 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sudan | compound |
| 10 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 President | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Kiir | punct |
| 12 | Salva | Salva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kiir | compound |
| 13 | Kiir | Kiir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 President | conj |
| 14 | Mayardit | Mayardit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kiir | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Day | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Day | case |
| 17 | Independence | Independence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Day | compound |
| 18 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 signed | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 20 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 signed | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 force | case |
| 23 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past · passive | the President of South Sudan and Salva Kiir | the constitution | on Independence Day | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on day=Destination | |||
| 2 | come | past | the President of South Sudan and Salva Kiir not said here | force | thereby property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into force=Initial_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.
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