Sudan, sentence 194
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.
But Mahmoud was a supporter of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; the region was caught between the Empire's efforts to save the Jews, and moderate Arab calls to halt migration.
Who acts: Mahmoud, moderate Arab · What happens: be, catch, save, call, halt · To what, where: supporter, region, Jews, migration · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mahmoud, moderate Arab), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 Mahmoud | cc |
| 2 | Mahmoud | Mahmoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 supporter | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 supporter | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 supporter | det |
| 5 | supporter | supporter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Mufti | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mufti | det |
| 8 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Mufti | amod |
| 9 | Mufti | Mufti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 supporter | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Jerusalem | case |
| 11 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mufti | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 caught | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 region | det |
| 14 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 caught | aux:pass |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 supporter | conj |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 efforts | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Empire | det |
| 19 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Empire | case |
| 21 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 caught | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 save | mark |
| 23 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 caught | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Jews | det |
| 25 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 save | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 calls | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 calls | cc |
| 28 | moderate | moderate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Arab | amod |
| 29 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 calls | nsubj |
| 30 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 supporter | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 halt | mark |
| 32 | halt | halt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 calls | xcomp |
| 33 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 halt | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 supporter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mahmoud | a supporter | of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | the region | between the Empire's efforts | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | the Jews | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jew=Theme | |||||
| 4 | call | present | moderate Arab | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | halt | to-infinitive | moderate Arab not said here | migration | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector migration=Eventuality |
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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