South Sudan, sentence 434
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 alleged fettering of media freedom was attributed in an Al Jazeera report to the difficulty SPLM has faced in reforming itself as a legitimate government after years of leading a rebellion against the Sudanese government.
Who acts: difficulty, years · What happens: allege, attribute, face, reform, lead · To what, where: alleged fettering, Al report, SPLM, freedom, rebellion, Sudanese government
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 (difficulty, years), 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 | 3 fettering | det |
| 2 | alleged | allege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fettering | amod |
| 3 | fettering | fettering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attributed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 freedom | case |
| 5 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 freedom | compound |
| 6 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fettering | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 attributed | aux:pass |
| 8 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 report | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 report | det |
| 11 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 report | compound |
| 12 | Jazeera | Jazeera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Al | flat |
| 13 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attributed | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 difficulty | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 difficulty | det |
| 16 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 report | nmod |
| 17 | SPLM | SPLM | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 faced | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 faced | aux |
| 19 | faced | face | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 difficulty | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 reforming | mark |
| 21 | reforming | reform | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 faced | advcl |
| 22 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 reforming | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 government | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 government | det |
| 25 | legitimate | legitimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 government | amod |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reforming | obl |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 years | case |
| 28 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 reforming | obl |
| 29 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 leading | mark |
| 30 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 years | acl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 rebellion | det |
| 32 | rebellion | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 leading | obj |
| 33 | against | against | ADP | _ | 36 government | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 government | det |
| 35 | Sudanese | sudanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 government | amod |
| 36 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rebellion | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 attributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allege speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | attribute | past · passive | this alleged fettering of media freedom | a Al report to the difficulty | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | face | present · perfect · passive | the difficulty not said here | SPLM | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | reform | gerund | the difficulty not said here | freedom | year | as a legitimate government | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | ||
| 5 | lead | gerund | years not said here | a rebellion | the Sudanese government | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rebellion=Theme against government=Destination |
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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