Sudan, sentence 124
From Wikipedia, «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.
During the 17th century the Funj state reached its widest extent, but in the following century it began to decline.
Who acts: Funj state, state · What happens: reach, follow, begin, decline, extend · To what, where: widest extent
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sudan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Funj state, state), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 state | det |
| 6 | Funj | Funj | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 state | compound |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 extent | nmod:poss |
| 10 | widest | widest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 extent | amod |
| 11 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 century | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 century | det |
| 16 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 century | amod |
| 17 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 began | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reached | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 decline | mark |
| 21 | decline | decline | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the Funj state | state's widest extent | century | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent extent=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | state | century | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | decline | to-infinitive | state not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | extend | state | nom extent «state transitive»: poss=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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