Sudan, sentence 67
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.
According to Josephus Flavius, the biblical Moses led the Egyptian army in a siege of the Kushite city of Meroe.
Who acts: biblical Moses · What happens: accord, lead · To what, where: Egyptian army, siege
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 (biblical Moses), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Flavius | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | Josephus | Josephus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Flavius | compound |
| 4 | Flavius | Flavius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Flavius | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moses | det |
| 7 | biblical | biblical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Moses | amod |
| 8 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 led | nsubj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 army | det |
| 11 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 army | amod |
| 12 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 siege | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 siege | det |
| 15 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 18 | Kushite | kushite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 city | amod |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 siege | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Meroe | case |
| 21 | Meroe | Meroe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 city | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lead | past | the biblical Moses | the Egyptian army | a siege of the Kushite city of Meroe | accord Josephus Flavius | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme in siege=Destination |
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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