South Sudan, sentence 272
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.
South Sudan was eventually approved for membership in East African Community in March 2016, and formally acceded with the signature of the treaty in April 2016.
What happens: approve, accede, sign · To what, where: South Sudan, treaty
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: 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 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sudan | compound |
| 2 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 approved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 approved | aux:pass |
| 4 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 5 approved | advmod |
| 5 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 membership | case |
| 7 | membership | membership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 approved | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Community | case |
| 9 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Community | compound |
| 10 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Community | amod |
| 11 | Community | Community | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 membership | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 March | case |
| 13 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Community | nmod |
| 14 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 March | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 acceded | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 acceded | cc |
| 17 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 18 acceded | advmod |
| 18 | acceded | accede | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 approved | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 signature | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 signature | det |
| 21 | signature | signature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 acceded | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 treaty | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 treaty | det |
| 24 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 signature | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 April | case |
| 26 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 acceded | obl |
| 27 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 April | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 approved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approve | past · passive | South Sudan | for membership in East African Community in March 2016; eventually property | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | accede | past | april | with the signature of the treaty; formally property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sign | the treaty | nom signature «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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