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title: He claimed that the Southern Sudanese population actually constitute… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: He claimed that the Southern Sudanese population actually constituted one-third of that of Sudan, though the census showed it to be only 22%. Who acts: Sudan, census. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Sudan, sentence 325

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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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He claimed that the Southern Sudanese population actually constituted one-third of that of Sudan, though the census showed it to be only 22%.

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**Who acts:** Sudan, census · **What happens:** claim, constitute, show · **To what, where:** Southern Sudanese population, population · **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 (Sudan, census), 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:325
# text = He claimed that the Southern Sudanese population actually constituted one-third of that of Sudan, though the census showed it to be only 22%.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Sudanese	sudanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	constituted	constitute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | Sudan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **constitute** | participle · passive |  | the Southern Sudanese population |  |  |  | one third of that of Sudan *obj*; actually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | past | the census | population |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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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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