South Sudan, sentence 328
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 2009, Sudan initiated a Southern Sudanese census ahead of the 2011 independence referendum, which would also include the South Sudanese diaspora; however, this initiative was criticised for leaving out countries with a high share of the South Sudanese diaspora, rather counting countries where the diaspora share was low.
Who acts: Sudan, independence referendum, South Sudanese diaspora, diaspora share · What happens: initiate, include, criticise, leave out, count, be · To what, where: Southern Sudanese census, 2009, South Sudanese diaspora, initiative, countries, independence referendum
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, independence referendum, South Sudanese diaspora, diaspora share), 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 | _ | 2 2009 | case |
| 2 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 initiated | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2009 | punct |
| 4 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 initiated | nsubj |
| 5 | initiated | initiate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 census | det |
| 7 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 census | amod |
| 8 | Sudanese | sudanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 census | amod |
| 9 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 initiated | obj |
| 10 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 15 referendum | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 referendum | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 referendum | det |
| 13 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 independence | nummod |
| 14 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 referendum | compound |
| 15 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 census | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 include | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 include | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 include | aux |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 include | advmod |
| 20 | include | include | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 referendum | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 diaspora | det |
| 22 | South | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 diaspora | amod |
| 23 | Sudanese | sudanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 diaspora | amod |
| 24 | diaspora | diaspora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 include | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 criticised | punct |
| 26 | however | however | ADV | _ | 31 criticised | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 however | punct |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 initiative | det |
| 29 | initiative | initiative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 criticised | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 criticised | aux:pass |
| 31 | criticised | criticise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 initiated | conj |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 leaving | mark |
| 33 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 criticised | advcl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 leaving | compound:prt |
| 35 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 leaving | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 share | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 share | det |
| 38 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 share | amod |
| 39 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 leaving | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 diaspora | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 diaspora | det |
| 42 | South | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 diaspora | amod |
| 43 | Sudanese | sudanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 diaspora | amod |
| 44 | diaspora | diaspora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 share | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 counting | punct |
| 46 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 47 counting | advmod |
| 47 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 diaspora | acl |
| 48 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 counting | obj |
| 49 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 54 low | advmod |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 share | det |
| 51 | diaspora | diaspora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 share | compound |
| 52 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 low | nsubj |
| 53 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 low | cop |
| 54 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 countries | acl:relcl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 initiated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | initiate | past | Sudan | a Southern Sudanese census of the independence referendum | 2009 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent census=Patient | |||
| 2 | include | would | the independence referendum | the South Sudanese diaspora | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diaspora=Theme | ||||
| 3 | criticise | past · passive | this initiative | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave out | gerund | countries | with a high share of the South Sudanese diaspora | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 5 | count | gerund | the South Sudanese diaspora not said here | countries | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the diaspora share | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | census | the independence referendum | nom census «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | share | the South Sudanese diaspora | nom share «possession 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.
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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