Sudan, sentence 399
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 the US listed Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism, the NIF decided to develop relations with Iraq, and later Iran, the two most controversial countries in the region.
Who acts: US, NIF · What happens: list, decide, develop · To what, where: Sudan, relations
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 (US, NIF), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 listed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 US | det |
| 3 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listed | nsubj |
| 4 | listed | list | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listed | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 sponsor | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sponsor | det |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sponsor | compound |
| 9 | sponsor | sponsor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 terrorism | case |
| 11 | terrorism | terrorism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sponsor | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 decided | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 NIF | det |
| 14 | NIF | NIF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 decided | nsubj |
| 15 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sponsor | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 develop | mark |
| 17 | develop | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 decided | xcomp |
| 18 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 develop | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Iraq | case |
| 20 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 relations | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Iran | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Iran | cc |
| 23 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 Iran | advmod |
| 24 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 countries | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 countries | det |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 countries | nummod |
| 28 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 29 controversial | advmod |
| 29 | controversial | controversial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 countries | amod |
| 30 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Iran | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 region | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 region | det |
| 33 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 countries | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | list | past | the US | Sudan | as a state sponsor of terrorism; Iran the two controversial countries in the region obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | decide | past | the NIF | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | develop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the NIF not said here | relations | with Iraq | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Product |
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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