South Sudan, sentence 30
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.
In the 18th century, the Avungara sib rose to power over the rest of Azande society, a domination that continued into the 20th century.
Who acts: Avungara sib, domination · What happens: rise, continue · To what, where: rest
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 (Avungara sib, domination), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 century | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sib | det |
| 7 | Avungara | Avungara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sib | compound |
| 8 | sib | sib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | nsubj |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 power | case |
| 11 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 rest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rest | det |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 society | case |
| 16 | Azande | Azande | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 society | compound |
| 17 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rest | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 domination | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 domination | det |
| 20 | domination | domination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 society | appos |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 continued | nsubj |
| 22 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 domination | acl:relcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 century | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 century | det |
| 25 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 26 century | amod |
| 26 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 continued | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the Avungara sib | the rest of Azande society | century | to power | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to power=Initial_Location over rest=Destination | ||
| 2 | continue | past | a domination | century | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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