South Sudan, sentence 39
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.
The Mahdist Revolt of the 1880s destabilised the nascent province, and Equatoria ceased to exist as an Egyptian outpost in 1889.
Who acts: Mahdist Revolt, Equatoria · What happens: destabilis, cease, exist · To what, where: nascent province, 1889
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 (Mahdist Revolt, Equatoria), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Revolt | det |
| 2 | Mahdist | Mahdist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Revolt | compound |
| 3 | Revolt | Revolt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 destabilised | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 1880s | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 1880s | det |
| 6 | 1880s | 1880 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 7 destabilised | obl |
| 7 | destabilised | destabilis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 province | det |
| 9 | nascent | nascent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 province | amod |
| 10 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 destabilised | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ceased | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ceased | cc |
| 13 | Equatoria | Equatoria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ceased | nsubj |
| 14 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 destabilised | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 exist | mark |
| 16 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ceased | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 outpost | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 outpost | det |
| 19 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 outpost | amod |
| 20 | outpost | outpost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exist | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1889 | case |
| 22 | 1889 | 1889 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 exist | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 destabilised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destabilis | past | the Mahdist Revolt | the nascent province | of the 1880s | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cease | past | Equatoria | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | exist | to-infinitive | Equatoria not said here | 1889 | as a Egyptian outpost | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1889=Location |
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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