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title: The residents, deemed squatters, were mostly southern Sudanese whom… — Khartoum · tree and pragmatics
description: The residents, deemed squatters, were mostly southern Sudanese whom the government feared could be potential rebel sympathizers. Who acts: residents, government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Khartoum» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Khartoum, sentence 70

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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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The residents, deemed squatters, were mostly southern Sudanese whom the government feared could be potential rebel sympathizers.

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**Who acts:** residents, government · **What happens:** be, fear · **To what, where:** southern Sudanese, potential rebel sympathizers

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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 (residents, government), 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:70
# text = The residents, deemed squatters, were mostly southern Sudanese whom the government feared could be potential rebel sympathizers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	deemed	deemed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	squatters	squatter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Sudanese	Sudanese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	potential	potential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sympathizers	sympathizer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the residents and deemed squatters | southern Sudanese |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fear** | past | the government | southern Sudanese |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | could |  | potential rebel sympathizers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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