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title: South Sudan was eventually approved for membership in East African C… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: South Sudan was eventually approved for membership in East African Community in March 2016, and formally acceded with the signature of the treaty in April 2016. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Sudan, sentence 272

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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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South Sudan was eventually approved for membership in East African Community in March 2016, and formally acceded with the signature of the treaty in April 2016.

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**What happens:** approve, accede, sign · **To what, where:** South Sudan, treaty

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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: 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:272
# text = South Sudan was eventually approved for membership in East African Community in March 2016, and formally acceded with the signature of the treaty in April 2016.
1	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	membership	membership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Community	Community	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	acceded	accede	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	signature	signature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approve** | past · passive |  | South Sudan |  |  |  | for membership in East African Community in March  2016; eventually *property* | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **accede** | past |  |  |  |  | april | with the signature of the treaty; formally *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sign** |  |  | the treaty |  |  |  |  | nom signature «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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