South Sudan, sentence 79
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.
Machar returned to Juba in 2016 and was appointed vice-president.
Who acts: Machar · What happens: return, appoint · To what, where: Juba, 2016, vice-president
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 (Machar), 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 | Machar | Machar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Juba | case |
| 4 | Juba | Juba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 2016 | case |
| 6 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 returned | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 appointed | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appointed | aux:pass |
| 9 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 returned | conj |
| 10 | vice-president | vice-president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appointed | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Machar | Juba | 2016 | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to juba=Result | |||
| 2 | appoint | past · passive | Machar not said here | vice-president | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
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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