Sudan, sentence 462

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.

Sympathisers of rebel groups are arbitrarily detained, as are foreign journalists, human-rights defenders, student activists and displaced people in and around Khartoum, some of whom face torture.

Who acts: some · What happens: detain, be, displace, torture · To what, where: Sympathisers, people, Khartoum

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 (some), 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	Sympathisers	sympathiser	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 detained	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 groups	case
3	rebel	rebel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 groups	compound
4	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sympathisers	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 detained	aux:pass
6	arbitrarily	arbitrarily	ADV	_	7 detained	advmod
7	detained	detain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 journalists	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 journalists	case
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 journalists	cop
11	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 journalists	amod
12	journalists	journalist	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 detained	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 defenders	punct
14	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 defenders	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 human	punct
16	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 defenders	compound
17	defenders	defender	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 journalists	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 activists	punct
19	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 activists	compound
20	activists	activist	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 defenders	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 displaced	cc
22	displaced	displace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 detained	conj
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 displaced	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 Khartoum	case
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 around	cc
26	around	around	ADP	_	24 in	conj
27	Khartoum	Khartoum	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 displaced	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 torture	punct
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 torture	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 whom	case
31	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 torture	obl
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 torture	compound
33	torture	torture	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Khartoum	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 detained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	detain	present · passive		Sympathisers of rebel groups		arbitrarily property	vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	present				as foreign journalists; human rights defenders and student activists appos	tree rules
3	displace	past		people	Khartoum		tree rules
4	torture		some			of Khartoum	tree rules

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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Sudan, sentence 462