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title: As with many cities in the continent, parts of Khartoum are connecte… — Khartoum · tree and pragmatics
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# Khartoum, sentence 150

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From Wikipedia, [«Khartoum»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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As with many cities in the continent, parts of Khartoum are connected through privately owned buses.

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**What happens:** connect, own · **To what, where:** many cities, owned buses

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Khartoum». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Khartoum:150
# text = As with many cities in the continent, parts of Khartoum are connected through privately owned buses.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Khartoum	Khartoum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	privately	privately	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | present · passive |  | many cities in the continent  parts of Khartoum |  | owned buses |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **own** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | privately *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Khartoum», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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