South Sudan, sentence 53
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.
On 23 January 2011, a steering committee on post-independence said the land would be named the Republic of South Sudan.
Who acts: steering committee · What happens: steer, say, name · To what, where: 23, land · 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 (steering committee), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 23 | case |
| 2 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 said | obl |
| 3 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2011 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 23 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 23 | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 committee | det |
| 7 | steering | steer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 committee | amod |
| 8 | committee | committee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 post-independence | case |
| 10 | post-independence | post-independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 committee | nmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 named | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 named | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 named | aux:pass |
| 16 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Republic | det |
| 18 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 named | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Sudan | case |
| 20 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sudan | compound |
| 21 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Republic | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steer | gerund | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a steering committee on post-independence | 23 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | name | would · passive | the land | the Republic of South Sudan xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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