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title: More than 2.3 million South Sudanese were refugees or asylum-seekers… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: More than 2.3 million South Sudanese were refugees or asylum-seekers abroad, while 2.5 million people were internally displaced. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Sudan, sentence 409

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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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More than 2.3 million South Sudanese were refugees or asylum-seekers abroad, while 2.5 million people were internally displaced.

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**What happens:** be, displace · **To what, where:** million people, 2.3 million

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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:409
# text = More than 2.3 million South Sudanese were refugees or asylum-seekers abroad, while 2.5 million people were internally displaced.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	2.3	2.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	South	south	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Sudanese	Sudanese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	asylum	asylum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	seekers	seeker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	2.5	2.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	internally	internally	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	displaced	displace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | south Sudanese refugees or asylum seekers; asylum seekers *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **displace** | past · passive |  | million people |  |  |  | internally *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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