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title: Khartoum's unique history and cultural significance have inspired li… — Khartoum · tree and pragmatics
description: Khartoum's unique history and cultural significance have inspired literary works that explore its past, present, and future. Who acts: literary works. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Khartoum» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Khartoum, sentence 170

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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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Khartoum's unique history and cultural significance have inspired literary works that explore its past, present, and future.

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**Who acts:** literary works · **What happens:** inspire, explore · **To what, where:** unique history, past

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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: who acts (literary works), 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:170
# text = Khartoum's unique history and cultural significance have inspired literary works that explore its past, present, and future.
1	Khartoum	Khartoum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	significance	significance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	explore	explore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inspire** | present · perfect · passive |  | Khartoum's unique history and cultural significance |  |  |  | literary works *obj*; future *parataxis* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer work=Result |
| 2 | **explore** | present | literary works | history's past and present |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent past=Location |

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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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