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title: In terms of South Sudan's external debt, Sudan and South Sudan maint… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: In terms of South Sudan's external debt, Sudan and South Sudan maintain a shared debt of approximately US$38 billion, all of which has accumulated throughout the past five decades. Who acts: terms. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Sudan, sentence 252

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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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In terms of South Sudan's external debt, Sudan and South Sudan maintain a shared debt of approximately US$38 billion, all of which has accumulated throughout the past five decades.

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**Who acts:** terms · **What happens:** maintain, share, accumulate, term · **To what, where:** shared debt, all, external debt

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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 (terms), 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:252
# text = In terms of South Sudan's external debt, Sudan and South Sudan maintain a shared debt of approximately US$38 billion, all of which has accumulated throughout the past five decades.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	external	external	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
14	maintain	maintain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	$	$	SYM	$	_	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	38	38	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	_
23	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nmod	_	_
28	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	accumulated	accumulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
30	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maintain** | present | terms of South Sudan's external debt | a shared debt |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent debt=Theme |
| 2 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **accumulate** | present · perfect · passive |  | all |  |  | decade |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **term** |  |  | South Sudan's external debt |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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