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title: The country's economy, as in many other developing countries, is hea… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: The country's economy, as in many other developing countries, is heavily dependent on agriculture. Who acts: economy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Sudan, sentence 237

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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 country's economy, as in many other developing countries, is heavily dependent on agriculture.

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**Who acts:** economy · **What happens:** develop, be · **To what, where:** agriculture

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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 (economy), 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:237
# text = The country's economy, as in many other developing countries, is heavily dependent on agriculture.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	developing	develop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	dependent	dependent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the country's economy and many other developing countries |  |  | agriculture |  | dependent, heavily *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, «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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