South Sudan, sentence 7
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.
Sudan was occupied by Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty in the 1800s and governed as an Anglo-Egyptian condominium from 1899 until Sudanese independence in 1956.
Who acts: Egypt · What happens: occupy, govern · To what, where: Sudan, Ali dynasty, 1956
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 (Egypt), 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 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 occupied | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 occupied | aux:pass |
| 3 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Egypt | case |
| 5 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 occupied | obl |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 dynasty | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dynasty | det |
| 8 | Muhammad | Muhammad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ali | compound |
| 9 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dynasty | compound |
| 10 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occupied | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1800s | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 1800s | det |
| 13 | 1800s | 1800 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 10 dynasty | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 governed | cc |
| 15 | governed | govern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 occupied | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 condominium | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 condominium | det |
| 18 | Anglo | Anglo | X | _ | 20 Egyptian | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Anglo | punct |
| 20 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 condominium | amod |
| 21 | condominium | condominium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 governed | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 1899 | case |
| 23 | 1899 | 1899 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 condominium | nmod |
| 24 | until | until | ADP | _ | 26 independence | case |
| 25 | Sudanese | Sudanese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 independence | compound |
| 26 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 governed | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 1956 | case |
| 28 | 1956 | 1956 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 governed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | past · passive | Egypt | Sudan | the Ali dynasty in the 1800s | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | govern | participle | Egypt not said here | 1956 | until Sudanese independence | as a Egyptian condominium from 1899 | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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