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title: The camps were watched over by heavily armed security guards, many r… — Khartoum · tree and pragmatics
description: The camps were watched over by heavily armed security guards, many relief agencies were banned from assisting, and "the nearest food was at a market four miles away, a vast journey in the desert heat". Who acts: armed security guards, nearest food. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Khartoum» with its depen
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# Khartoum, sentence 72

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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 camps were watched over by heavily armed security guards, many relief agencies were banned from assisting, and "the nearest food was at a market four miles away, a vast journey in the desert heat".

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**Who acts:** armed security guards, nearest food · **What happens:** watch over, ban, be · **To what, where:** camps, many relief agencies, assisting, market · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (armed security guards, nearest food), 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:72
# text = The camps were watched over by heavily armed security guards, many relief agencies were banned from assisting, and "the nearest food was at a market four miles away, a vast journey in the desert heat".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	camps	camp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	agencies	agency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	assisting	assisting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
29	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch over** | past · passive | armed security guards | the camps |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ban** | past · passive |  | many relief agencies |  | assisting |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from assisting=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the nearest food |  |  | a market and a vast journey in the desert heat |  | a vast journey in the desert heat *conj*; away *property* | 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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