Sudan, sentence 154
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.
After a power struggle amongst his deputies, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, with the help primarily of the Baggara of western Sudan, overcame the opposition of the others and emerged as the unchallenged leader of the Mahdiyah.
What happens: overcome, emerge, help, oppose · To what, where: opposition, Baggara, others
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 struggle | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 struggle | det |
| 3 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struggle | compound |
| 4 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 overcame | obl |
| 5 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 7 deputies | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 deputies | nmod:poss |
| 7 | deputies | deputy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 struggle | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Abdallahi | punct |
| 9 | Abdallahi | Abdallahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 struggle | appos |
| 10 | ibn | Ibn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Abdallahi | flat |
| 11 | Muhammad | Muhammad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Abdallahi | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 help | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 help | det |
| 15 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struggle | conj |
| 16 | primarily | primarily | ADV | _ | 15 help | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Baggara | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Baggara | det |
| 19 | Baggara | Baggara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 help | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Sudan | case |
| 21 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Sudan | amod |
| 22 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Baggara | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 struggle | punct |
| 24 | overcame | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 opposition | det |
| 26 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 overcame | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 others | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 others | det |
| 29 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 opposition | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 emerged | cc |
| 31 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 overcame | conj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 leader | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 leader | det |
| 34 | unchallenged | unchallenged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 leader | amod |
| 35 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 emerged | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Mahdiyah | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Mahdiyah | det |
| 38 | Mahdiyah | Mahdiyah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 leader | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 overcame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past | the opposition of the others | after a power struggle amongst Muhammad's deputies and the help of the Baggara of western Sudan | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot opposition=Theme | ||||
| 2 | emerge | participle | as the unchallenged leader of the Mahdiyah | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | the Baggara of western Sudan | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | oppose | the others | nom opposition «act 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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