Sudan, sentence 197
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.
Italian troops occupied Kassala and other border areas from Italian Somaliland during 1940.
Who acts: Italian troops · What happens: occupy · To what, where: Kassala, Italian
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 (Italian troops), 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 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 troops | amod |
| 2 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 occupied | nsubj |
| 3 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Kassala | Kassala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 occupied | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 areas | cc |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 areas | amod |
| 7 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 areas | compound |
| 8 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Kassala | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Italian | case |
| 10 | Italian | Italian | PROPN | _ | 3 occupied | obl |
| 11 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Italian | flat |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 13 1940 | case |
| 13 | 1940 | 1940 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 occupied | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | past | Italian troops | Kassala and other border areas | Italian | during 1940 | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus kassala=Experiencer |
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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