South Sudan, sentence 447
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.
Christopher Allen was a freelance journalist who had worked for several US news outlets.
Who acts: Christopher, freelance journalist · What happens: be, work · To what, where: freelance journalist
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 (Christopher, freelance journalist), 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 | Christopher | Christopher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 journalist | nsubj |
| 2 | Allen | Allen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Christopher | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 journalist | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 journalist | det |
| 5 | freelance | freelance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 journalist | compound |
| 6 | journalist | journalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 worked | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 worked | aux |
| 9 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 journalist | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 outlets | case |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 outlets | amod |
| 12 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 outlets | compound |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 outlets | compound |
| 14 | outlets | outlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 worked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 journalist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Christopher | a freelance journalist | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | past · perfect | a freelance journalist | for several US news outlets | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for outlet=Beneficiary |
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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