Sudan, sentence 586
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.
Due to a 1991 penal code (Public Order Law), women were not allowed to wear trousers in public, because it was interpreted as an "obscene outfit".
Who acts: women · What happens: not allow, wear, interpret · To what, where: women, trousers, public, code
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 (women), 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 | Due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 6 code | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 Due | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 code | det |
| 4 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 code | nummod |
| 5 | penal | penal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 code | amod |
| 6 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 allowed | obl |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Law | punct |
| 8 | Public | Public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Order | amod |
| 9 | Order | Order | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Law | compound |
| 10 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 code | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Law | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 code | punct |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 allowed | aux:pass |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 allowed | advmod |
| 16 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wear | mark |
| 18 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 allowed | xcomp |
| 19 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wear | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 public | case |
| 21 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wear | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 interpreted | punct |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 interpreted | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 interpreted | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 interpreted | aux:pass |
| 26 | interpreted | interpret | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 allowed | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 outfit | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 outfit | det |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 outfit | punct |
| 30 | obscene | obscene | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 outfit | amod |
| 31 | outfit | outfit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 interpreted | obl |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 outfit | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | past · passive | women | due a 1991 penal code | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wear not said to happen | to-infinitive | women not said here | trousers | public | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent trousers=Source | |||
| 3 | interpret | past · passive | code | as a obscene outfit | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as outfit=Attribute |
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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