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title: The constitution was signed by the President of South Sudan, Salva K… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: The constitution was signed by the President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, on Independence Day and thereby came into force. Who acts: President. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Sudan, sentence 140

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From Wikipedia, [«South Sudan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudan), 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 constitution was signed by the President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, on Independence Day and thereby came into force.

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**Who acts:** President · **What happens:** sign, come · **To what, where:** constitution, force

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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 (President), 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:South_Sudan:140
# text = The constitution was signed by the President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, on Independence Day and thereby came into force.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Salva	Salva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Kiir	Kiir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	Mayardit	Mayardit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | past · passive | the President of South Sudan and Salva Kiir | the constitution |  |  | on Independence Day |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on day=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | past | the President of South Sudan and Salva Kiir *not said here* |  |  | force |  | thereby *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into force=Initial\_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, «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.

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