Sudan, sentence 579
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.
As in other countries, the growing importance of photography for mass media like newspapers, as well as for amateur photographers led to a wider photographic documentation and use of photographs in Sudan during the 20th century and beyond.
Who acts: amateur photographers · What happens: grow, lead, use · To what, where: newspapers, wider photographic documentation, photographs
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 (amateur photographers), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 countries | case |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 countries | case |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 countries | amod |
| 4 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 importance | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 importance | det |
| 7 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 importance | amod |
| 8 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 countries | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 photography | case |
| 10 | photography | photography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 importance | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 media | case |
| 12 | mass | mass | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 media | amod |
| 13 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 photography | nmod |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 newspapers | case |
| 15 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 media | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 led | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 23 led | cc |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 as | fixed |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 photographers | case |
| 21 | amateur | amateur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 photographers | compound |
| 22 | photographers | photographer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 led | nsubj |
| 23 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 newspapers | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 documentation | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 documentation | det |
| 26 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 documentation | amod |
| 27 | photographic | photographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 documentation | amod |
| 28 | documentation | documentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 led | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 use | cc |
| 30 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 documentation | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 photographs | case |
| 32 | photographs | photograph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 use | nmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Sudan | case |
| 34 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 photographs | nmod |
| 35 | during | during | ADP | _ | 38 century | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 century | det |
| 37 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 38 century | amod |
| 38 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 led | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 beyond | cc |
| 40 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 38 century | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 countries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | lead | past | amateur photographers | newspapers not said here | a wider photographic documentation and use of photographs in Sudan | century | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent newspaper=Theme to documentation=Destination | ||
| 4 | use | photographs in Sudan | nom use «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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