South Sudan, sentence 278
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.
Between Juba and Uganda, the river requires a channel to make it navigable.
Who acts: river · What happens: require, make · To what, where: channel, River
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 (river), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 Juba | case |
| 2 | Juba | Juba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 requires | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Uganda | cc |
| 4 | Uganda | Uganda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Juba | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Juba | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 requires | nsubj |
| 8 | requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 channel | det |
| 10 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 requires | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 requires | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | navigable | navigable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 make | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 requires | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | present | the river | a channel | between Juba and Uganda | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme channel=Precondition | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the river not said here | River | navigable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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