--- title: South Sudan has applied to join the Commonwealth of Nations, conside… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics description: South Sudan has applied to join the Commonwealth of Nations, considering that South Sudan was part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and has two republics in the Commonwealth of Nations, Kenya and Uganda, as neighbouring countries. Who acts: South Sudan. 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South Sudan has applied to join the Commonwealth of Nations, considering that South Sudan was part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and has two republics in the Commonwealth of Nations, Kenya and Uganda, as neighbouring countries. **Who acts:** South Sudan · **What happens:** apply, join, consider, be, have, neighbour · **To what, where:** South Sudan, Commonwealth, part, two republics 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 (South Sudan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:273 # text = South Sudan has applied to join the Commonwealth of Nations, considering that South Sudan was part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and has two republics in the Commonwealth of Nations, Kenya and Uganda, as neighbouring countries. 1 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Sudan Sudan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 applied apply VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Commonwealth Commonwealth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 considering consider VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Sudan Sudan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 Anglo Anglo X AFX _ 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Egyptian Egyptian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Sudan Sudan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 republics republic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Commonwealth Commonwealth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Kenya Kenya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 Uganda Uganda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 neighbouring neighbour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 amod _ _ 41 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **apply** | present · perfect · passive | | South Sudan | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **join** | to-infinitive | | the Commonwealth of Nations | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commonwealth=Patient | | 3 | **consider** | gerund | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | South Sudan | part | | | | of the Egyptian Sudan | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | | two republics and neighbouring countries | | the Commonwealth of Nations and Kenya and Uganda | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Patient | | 6 | **neighbour** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 272](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Sudan/272/) - next →: [sentence 274](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Sudan/274/) - ↑ back to [South Sudan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/South_Sudan/)