South Sudan, sentence 91
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.
The first democratic elections in South Sudan since the start of the civil war were scheduled for 2023 by the peace agreement that ended the war officially, but the transitional government and opposition agreed in 2022 to move them to late 2024 instead.
Who acts: peace agreement, transitional government · What happens: schedule, end, agree, move, start · To what, where: first democratic elections, war, 2022, elections, late 2024, civil war
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 (peace agreement, transitional government), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elections | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 elections | amod |
| 3 | democratic | democratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 elections | amod |
| 4 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 scheduled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Sudan | case |
| 6 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sudan | compound |
| 7 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 elections | nmod |
| 8 | since | since | ADP | _ | 10 start | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 start | det |
| 10 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sudan | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 war | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 war | det |
| 13 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 war | amod |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 start | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 scheduled | aux:pass |
| 16 | scheduled | schedule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 2023 | case |
| 18 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 scheduled | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 agreement | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 agreement | det |
| 21 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 agreement | compound |
| 22 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scheduled | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 ended | nsubj |
| 24 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 agreement | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 war | det |
| 26 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ended | obj |
| 27 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 24 ended | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 agreed | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 agreed | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 government | det |
| 31 | transitional | transitional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 government | amod |
| 32 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 agreed | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 opposition | cc |
| 34 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 government | conj |
| 35 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 scheduled | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 2022 | case |
| 37 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 agreed | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 move | mark |
| 39 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 agreed | advcl |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 move | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 2024 | case |
| 42 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 2024 | amod |
| 43 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 move | obl |
| 44 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 39 move | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 scheduled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | schedule | past · passive | the peace agreement | the first democratic elections in South Sudan since the start of the civil war | for 2023 | tree rules | |||
| 2 | end | past | the peace agreement | the war | officially property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | participle | the transitional government and opposition | 2022 | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | move | to-infinitive | the transitional government and opposition not said here | elections = election | late 2024 | instead property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme to 2024=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | start | the civil war | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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