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title: Khartoum Bahri was established as a garrison comprising a dockyard a… — Khartoum · tree and pragmatics
description: Khartoum Bahri was established as a garrison comprising a dockyard and a railhead to Egypt, while Omdurman, remained the most populous part and largely kept its old shape. Who acts: garrison, Omdurman. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Khartoum» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Khartoum, sentence 42

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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 Bahri was established as a garrison comprising a dockyard and a railhead to Egypt, while Omdurman, remained the most populous part and largely kept its old shape.

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**Who acts:** garrison, Omdurman · **What happens:** establish, comprise, remain, keep · **To what, where:** Khartoum, dockyard, Egypt, populous part, old shape

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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 (garrison, Omdurman), 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:42
# text = Khartoum Bahri was established as a garrison comprising a dockyard and a railhead to Egypt, while Omdurman, remained the most populous part and largely kept its old shape.
1	Khartoum	Khartoum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Bahri	Bahri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	garrison	garrison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dockyard	dockyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	railhead	railhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Omdurman	Omdurman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	populous	populous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | Khartoum |  |  |  | as a garrison | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **comprise** | gerund | a garrison *not said here* | a dockyard and a railhead | Egypt |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dockyard=Pivot |
| 3 | **remain** | past | Omdurman | the populous part |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Attribute |
| 4 | **keep** | past | Omdurman *not said here* | railhead's old shape |  |  |  | largely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |

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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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