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title: This alleged fettering of media freedom was attributed in an Al Jaze… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: This alleged fettering of media freedom was attributed in an Al Jazeera report to the difficulty SPLM has faced in reforming itself as a legitimate government after years of leading a rebellion against the Sudanese government. Who acts: difficulty, years. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with
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# South Sudan, sentence 434

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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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This alleged fettering of media freedom was attributed in an Al Jazeera report to the difficulty SPLM has faced in reforming itself as a legitimate government after years of leading a rebellion against the Sudanese government.

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**Who acts:** difficulty, years · **What happens:** allege, attribute, face, reform, lead · **To what, where:** alleged fettering, Al report, SPLM, freedom, rebellion, Sudanese government

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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 (difficulty, years), 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:434
# text = This alleged fettering of media freedom was attributed in an Al Jazeera report to the difficulty SPLM has faced in reforming itself as a legitimate government after years of leading a rebellion against the Sudanese government.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	alleged	allege	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	fettering	fettering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	Jazeera	Jazeera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	SPLM	SPLM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	faced	face	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	reforming	reform	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	legitimate	legitimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	against	against	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Sudanese	sudanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allege** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **attribute** | past · passive |  | this alleged fettering of media freedom |  | a Al report to the difficulty |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **face** | present · perfect · passive | the difficulty *not said here* | SPLM |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **reform** | gerund | the difficulty *not said here* | freedom |  |  | year | as a legitimate government | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 5 | **lead** | gerund | years *not said here* | a rebellion |  | the Sudanese government |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rebellion=Theme against government=Destination |

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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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