Sudan, sentence 459
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 U.S. State Department's human-rights report issued in March 2007 claims that "*[a]*ll parties to the conflagration committed serious abuses, including widespread killing of civilians, rape as a tool of war, systematic torture, robbery and recruitment of child soldiers."
Who acts: March, ll parties · What happens: issue, claim, commit, kill, recruit · To what, where: human rights, serious abuses, civilians, child soldiers · 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 (March, ll parties), 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 | 4 Department | det |
| 2 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Department | compound |
| 3 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Department | compound |
| 4 | Department | Department | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rights | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Department | case |
| 6 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rights | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 human | punct |
| 8 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 issued | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | report | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 issued | aux:pass |
| 10 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 March | case |
| 12 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 claims | nsubj |
| 13 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 March | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | claims | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 issued | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 committed | mark |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 committed | punct |
| 17 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 27 committed | punct |
| 18 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 27 committed | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 committed | det |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 27 committed | punct |
| 21 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 23 parties | punct |
| 22 | ll | ll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 parties | compound |
| 23 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 committed | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 conflagration | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 conflagration | det |
| 26 | conflagration | conflagration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 parties | nmod |
| 27 | committed | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 claims | ccomp |
| 28 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 abuses | amod |
| 29 | abuses | abuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 committed | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 killing | punct |
| 31 | including | including | ADP | _ | 33 killing | case |
| 32 | widespread | widespread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 killing | amod |
| 33 | killing | killing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 abuses | appos |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 civilians | case |
| 35 | civilians | civilian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 killing | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 rape | punct |
| 37 | rape | rape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 abuses | conj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 tool | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 tool | det |
| 40 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rape | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 war | case |
| 42 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tool | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 torture | punct |
| 44 | systematic | systematic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 torture | amod |
| 45 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 abuses | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 robbery | punct |
| 47 | robbery | robbery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 torture | conj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 recruitment | cc |
| 49 | recruitment | recruitment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 torture | conj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 soldiers | case |
| 51 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 soldiers | compound |
| 52 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 recruitment | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 issued | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | present · passive | the U.S. State Department's human rights | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | present | March 2007 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | commit in a quote | past | ll parties to the conflagration | serious abuses and rape as a tool of war and systematic torture and robbery and recruitment of child soldiers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abuse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | civilians | nom killing «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | recruit in a quote | child soldiers | nom recruitment «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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