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title: This was contradicted by President Salva Kiir, who announced South S… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: This was contradicted by President Salva Kiir, who announced South Sudan had officially embarked on the application process one month later. Who acts: Salva. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Sudan, sentence 264

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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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This was contradicted by President Salva Kiir, who announced South Sudan had officially embarked on the application process one month later.

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**Who acts:** Salva · **What happens:** contradict, announce, embark · **To what, where:** This, South Sudan, application process · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Salva), 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:264
# text = This was contradicted by President Salva Kiir, who announced South Sudan had officially embarked on the application process one month later.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	contradicted	contradict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Salva	Salva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	Kiir	Kiir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	embarked	embark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contradict** | past · passive | Salva  President | This |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Salva  President |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **embark** | past · perfect · passive |  | South Sudan |  | the application process |  | late, officially *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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