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title: As a result of the war that erupted in December 2013, more than 2.3… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: As a result of the war that erupted in December 2013, more than 2.3 million people, one in every five people in South Sudan, were forced to flee their homes. Who acts: war. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Sudan, sentence 413

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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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As a result of the war that erupted in December 2013, more than 2.3 million people, one in every five people in South Sudan, were forced to flee their homes.

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**Who acts:** war · **What happens:** erupt, force, flee, result · **To what, where:** homes, war

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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 (war), 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:413
# text = As a result of the war that erupted in December 2013, more than 2.3 million people, one in every five people in South Sudan, were forced to flee their homes.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	erupted	erupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	2.3	2.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **erupt** | past | the war |  |  |  | december |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **force** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as a result of the war and million people | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: clause=Topic |
| 3 | **flee** | to-infinitive |  | returnees's homes |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **result** |  |  | the war |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon 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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