Sudan, sentence 61
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.
In Ahmose's writings, the Kushites are described as archers, "Now after his Majesty had slain the Bedoin of Asia, he sailed upstream to Upper Nubia to destroy the Nubian bowmen."
Who acts: Majesty, Ahmose · What happens: describe, slay, sail, destroy, write · To what, where: Kushites, writings, Bedoin, Upper, Nubian bowmen
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 (Majesty, Ahmose), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 writings | case |
| 2 | Ahmose | Ahmose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 writings | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Ahmose | case |
| 4 | writings | writing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 described | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 writings | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Kushites | det |
| 7 | Kushites | Kushite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 described | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 described | aux:pass |
| 9 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 archers | case |
| 11 | archers | archer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 described | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 archers | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 slain | punct |
| 14 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 slain | advmod |
| 15 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 slain | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 slain | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 slain | aux |
| 19 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 archers | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bedoin | det |
| 21 | Bedoin | Bedoin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 slain | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Asia | case |
| 23 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Bedoin | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sailed | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sailed | nsubj |
| 26 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 described | conj |
| 27 | upstream | upstream | ADV | _ | 26 sailed | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Upper | case |
| 29 | Upper | Upper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sailed | obl |
| 30 | Nubia | Nubia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Upper | flat |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 destroy | mark |
| 32 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sailed | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bowmen | det |
| 34 | Nubian | nubian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 bowmen | amod |
| 35 | bowmen | bowman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 destroy | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 described | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | the Kushites | Ahmose's writings | as archers | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as archer=Attribute | |||
| 2 | slay in a quote | past · perfect | BC's Majesty | the Bedoin of Asia | now | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedoin=Patient | |||
| 3 | sail in a quote | past | Majesty | Upper | upstream property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to upper=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | destroy in a quote | to-infinitive | Majesty not said here | the Nubian bowmen | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowman=Patient | ||||
| 5 | write | Ahmose | nom writing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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