South Sudan, sentence 325
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.
He claimed that the Southern Sudanese population actually constituted one-third of that of Sudan, though the census showed it to be only 22%.
Who acts: Sudan, census · What happens: claim, constitute, show · To what, where: Southern Sudanese population, population · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sudan, census), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 claimed | nsubj |
| 2 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 constituted | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 population | det |
| 5 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 population | amod |
| 6 | Sudanese | sudanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 population | amod |
| 7 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 constituted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 constituted | advmod |
| 9 | constituted | constitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 claimed | ccomp |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 third | nummod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 third | punct |
| 12 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 constituted | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 third | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Sudan | case |
| 16 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 third | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 showed | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 showed | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 census | det |
| 20 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 showed | nsubj |
| 21 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 claimed | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 showed | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 % | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 % | cop |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 22 | advmod |
| 26 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 % | nummod |
| 27 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 21 showed | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 claimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | Sudan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | constitute | participle · passive | the Southern Sudanese population | one third of that of Sudan obj; actually property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | past | the census | population | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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