--- title: It has since been governed by a coalition formed by leaders of the f… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics description: It has since been governed by a coalition formed by leaders of the former warring factions, Salva Kiir Mayardit (Sudan People's Liberation Movement or SPLM) and Riek Machar (Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition or SPLM-IO). Who acts: displacement. 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It has since been governed by a coalition formed by leaders of the former warring factions, Salva Kiir Mayardit (Sudan People's Liberation Movement or SPLM) and Riek Machar (Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition or SPLM-IO). **Who acts:** displacement · **What happens:** have, govern, be, form · **To what, where:** governed coalition This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Sudan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (displacement), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:South_Sudan:14 # text = It has since been governed by a coalition formed by leaders of the former warring factions, Salva Kiir Mayardit (Sudan People's Liberation Movement or SPLM) and Riek Machar (Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition or SPLM-IO). 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 since since SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 5 governed govern VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 coalition coalition NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 9 formed form VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 warring warring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 factions faction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Salva Salva PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Kiir Kiir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 20 Mayardit Mayardit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Sudan Sudan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 23 People People PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 24 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 25 Liberation Liberation PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Movement Movement PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 SPLM SPLM PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 Riek Riek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 32 Machar Machar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Sudan Sudan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 People People PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 Liberation Liberation PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 Movement Movement PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 Opposition opposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 43 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 SPLM SPLM PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 IO IO PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | displacement | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **govern** | participle | | | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | participle | | | | | | by a governed coalition; Salva Kiir and Riek *obl* | tree rules | | 4 | **form** | participle | | a governed coalition *not said here* | | | | by leaders of the former warring factions | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by leader=Location | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «South Sudan», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Sudan/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Sudan/15/) - ↑ back to [South Sudan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Sudan/)