South Sudan, sentence 370

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.

Despite European missionary activity beginning as early as the mid-19th century, the US Library of Congress states that "in the early 1990s possibly no more than 10% of southern Sudan's population was Christian".

Who acts: European missionary activity, US Library · What happens: begin, state, not be · To what, where: early 1990s · 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 (European missionary activity, US Library), 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	Despite	despite	ADP	_	4 activity	case
2	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 activity	amod
3	missionary	missionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 activity	compound
4	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 states	obl
5	beginning	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 activity	acl
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 early	advmod
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 beginning	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 century	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 century	det
10	mid-19th	mid-19th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	11 century	amod
11	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beginning	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 activity	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Library	det
14	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Library	compound
15	Library	Library	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 states	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Congress	case
17	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Library	nmod
18	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 Christian	mark
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 that	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 1990s	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 1990s	det
23	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 1990s	amod
24	1990s	1990s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	37 Christian	obl
25	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	37 Christian	advmod
26	no	no	ADV	_	37 Christian	advmod
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	37 Christian	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	27 more	fixed
29	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 %	nummod
30	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	37 Christian	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 population	case
32	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Sudan	amod
33	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 population	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Sudan	case
35	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 %	nmod
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 Christian	cop
37	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 states	ccomp
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Christian	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 states	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	gerund	European missionary activity not said here		century	early property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	state speech: other	present	the US Library of Congress			despite European missionary activity	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	past		the early 1990s		christian, possibly property	tree rules

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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South Sudan, sentence 370