Sudan, sentence 271
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.
The protests continued after the overthrow of his government on 11 April 2019 after a massive sit-in in front of the Sudanese Armed Forces main headquarters, after which the chiefs of staff decided to intervene and they ordered the arrest of President al-Bashir and declared a three-month state of emergency.
Who acts: protests, chiefs · What happens: continue, decide, intervene, order, declare, overthrow · To what, where: 11, arrest, month state, government, al
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 (protests, chiefs), 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 | 2 protests | det |
| 2 | protests | protest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 overthrow | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 overthrow | det |
| 6 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 government | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 government | nmod:poss |
| 9 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overthrow | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 11 | case |
| 11 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 continued | obl |
| 12 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 11 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 11 | flat |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 front | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 front | det |
| 16 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 front | amod |
| 17 | sit | sit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 front | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 front | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 front | case |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 front | case |
| 21 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Forces | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Forces | det |
| 24 | Sudanese | Sudanese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Forces | compound |
| 25 | Armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Forces | amod |
| 26 | Forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 front | nmod |
| 27 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 headquarters | amod |
| 28 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 26 Forces | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 decided | punct |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 decided | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 chiefs | det |
| 33 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 decided | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 staff | case |
| 35 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 chiefs | nmod |
| 36 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 intervene | mark |
| 38 | intervene | intervene | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 decided | xcomp |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 ordered | cc |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 ordered | nsubj |
| 41 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 decided | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 arrest | det |
| 43 | arrest | arrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ordered | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 al | case |
| 45 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 al | nmod:desc |
| 46 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 arrest | nmod |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 Bashir | punct |
| 48 | Bashir | Bashir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 al | flat |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 declared | cc |
| 50 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 decided | conj |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 state | det |
| 52 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 54 month | nummod |
| 53 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 three | punct |
| 54 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 state | compound |
| 55 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 declared | obj |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 emergency | case |
| 57 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 state | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the protests | 11 April | after the overthrow of government's government; after a massive front sit of the Sudanese Armed Forces and main headquarters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | decide | past | the chiefs of staff | which obl | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | intervene not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chiefs of staff not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | order | past | Protests = protest | the arrest of al President | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrest=Theme | ||||
| 5 | declare speech: other | past | the chiefs of staff not said here | a month state of emergency | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | overthrow | government's government | nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | arrest | al President | nom arrest «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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Sudan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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