South Sudan, sentence 273
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 has applied to join the Commonwealth of Nations, considering that South Sudan was part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and has two republics in the Commonwealth of Nations, Kenya and Uganda, as neighbouring countries.
Who acts: South Sudan · What happens: apply, join, consider, be, have, neighbour · To what, where: South Sudan, Commonwealth, part, two republics
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 (South Sudan), 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 | 4 applied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 applied | aux |
| 4 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 join | mark |
| 6 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 applied | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Commonwealth | det |
| 8 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 join | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Nations | case |
| 10 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Commonwealth | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 considering | punct |
| 12 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 join | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 part | mark |
| 14 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sudan | compound |
| 15 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 part | cop |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 considering | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Sudan | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sudan | det |
| 20 | Anglo | Anglo | X | _ | 22 Egyptian | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Anglo | punct |
| 22 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Sudan | amod |
| 23 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 has | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 has | cc |
| 26 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 applied | conj |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 republics | nummod |
| 28 | republics | republic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 has | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Commonwealth | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Commonwealth | det |
| 31 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 republics | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Nations | case |
| 33 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 Commonwealth | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Kenya | punct |
| 35 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Commonwealth | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Uganda | cc |
| 37 | Uganda | Uganda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Commonwealth | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 countries | punct |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 countries | case |
| 40 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 countries | amod |
| 41 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 republics | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 applied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | present · perfect · passive | South Sudan | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | join | to-infinitive | the Commonwealth of Nations | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commonwealth=Patient | |||||
| 3 | consider | gerund | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | South Sudan | part | of the Egyptian Sudan | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | present | two republics and neighbouring countries | the Commonwealth of Nations and Kenya and Uganda | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Patient | ||||
| 6 | neighbour | gerund | 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «South Sudan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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