Sudan, sentence 76
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.
The war that took place between Pharaoh Taharqa and the Assyrian king Sennacherib was a decisive event in Western history, with the Nubians being defeated in their attempts to gain a foothold in the Near East by Assyria.
Who acts: war, Nubians · What happens: take, be, defeat, gain, attempt · To what, where: place, decisive event, Western history, Nubians, attempts, foothold
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 (war, Nubians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 war | det |
| 2 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 event | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 war | acl:relcl |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 Pharaoh | case |
| 7 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 8 | Taharqa | Taharqa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Pharaoh | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 king | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 11 | Assyrian | assyrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 king | amod |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | conj |
| 13 | Sennacherib | Sennacherib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 king | appos |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 event | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 event | det |
| 16 | decisive | decisive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 event | amod |
| 17 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 history | case |
| 19 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 history | amod |
| 20 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 event | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 defeated | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Nubians | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Nubians | det |
| 24 | Nubians | Nubian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 defeated | aux:pass |
| 26 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 event | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 attempts | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 attempts | nmod:poss |
| 29 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 defeated | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 gain | mark |
| 31 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 defeated | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 foothold | det |
| 33 | foothold | foothold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gain | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 East | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 East | det |
| 36 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 37 East | case |
| 37 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 foothold | nmod |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 Assyria | case |
| 39 | Assyria | Assyria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 foothold | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 event | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the war | place and the Assyrian king | between Pharaoh | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the war | a decisive event | Western history | tree rules | |||
| 3 | defeat | gerund · passive | the Nubians | Nubians's attempts | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gain | to-infinitive | a foothold | by Assyria; in the East | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient foothold=Extent in east=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | attempt | Nubians = nubian | nom attempt «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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