South Sudan, sentence 264
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.
This was contradicted by President Salva Kiir, who announced South Sudan had officially embarked on the application process one month later.
Who acts: Salva · What happens: contradict, announce, embark · To what, where: This, South Sudan, application process · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Salva), 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 contradicted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 contradicted | aux:pass |
| 3 | contradicted | contradict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Salva | case |
| 5 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Salva | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Salva | Salva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 contradicted | obl |
| 7 | Kiir | Kiir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Salva | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 announced | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 announced | nsubj |
| 10 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Salva | parataxis |
| 11 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sudan | compound |
| 12 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 embarked | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 embarked | aux |
| 14 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 15 embarked | advmod |
| 15 | embarked | embark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 announced | ccomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 process | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 process | det |
| 18 | application | application | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 process | compound |
| 19 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 embarked | obl |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 month | nummod |
| 21 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 later | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 embarked | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contradicted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contradict | past · passive | Salva President | This | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | announce speech: other | past | Salva President | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | embark | past · perfect · passive | South Sudan | the application process | late, officially 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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