South Sudan, sentence 308
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 region has been negatively affected by war for all but 10 of the years since 1956, resulting in serious neglect, lack of infrastructure development, and major destruction and displacement.
Who acts: war · What happens: affect, result, lack · To what, where: region, serious neglect, infrastructure development
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 (war), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 region | det |
| 2 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 affected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 affected | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 affected | aux:pass |
| 5 | negatively | negatively | ADV | _ | 6 affected | advmod |
| 6 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 war | case |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 affected | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 affected | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 10 | cc |
| 12 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 affected | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 years | det |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 10 | nmod |
| 16 | since | since | ADP | _ | 17 1956 | case |
| 17 | 1956 | 1956 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 affected | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 resulting | punct |
| 19 | resulting | result | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 affected | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 neglect | case |
| 21 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 neglect | amod |
| 22 | neglect | neglect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 resulting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lack | punct |
| 24 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 neglect | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 development | case |
| 26 | infrastructure | infrastructure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 development | compound |
| 27 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lack | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 destruction | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 destruction | cc |
| 30 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 destruction | amod |
| 31 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 affected | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 displacement | cc |
| 33 | displacement | displacement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 destruction | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 affected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | present · perfect · passive | war | this region | since 1956 | for all; 10 of the years conj; major destruction and displacement parataxis; negatively property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | result | gerund | war not said here | serious neglect | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in neglect=Location | ||||
| 3 | lack | infrastructure development | nom lack «state 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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