South Sudan, sentence 23
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 name derives from the Arabic bilād as-sūdān (بلاد السودان), or the "Land of the Blacks".
Who acts: name · What happens: derive · To what, where: Arabic bilād
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 (name), 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 derives | nsubj |
| 3 | derives | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 bilād | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bilād | det |
| 6 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bilād | compound |
| 7 | bilād | bilād | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 derives | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 sūdān | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 as | punct |
| 10 | sūdān | sūdān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bilād | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 السودان | punct |
| 12 | بلاد | بلاد | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 السودان | compound |
| 13 | السودان | السودان | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sūdān | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 السودان | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Land | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 Land | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Land | det |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Land | punct |
| 19 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 derives | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Blacks | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Blacks | det |
| 22 | Blacks | black | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Land | nmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Land | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 derives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | present | the name | the Arabic bilād as sūdān | the Land of the Blacks parataxis | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
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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