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title: Christopher Allen was a freelance journalist who had worked for seve… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: Christopher Allen was a freelance journalist who had worked for several US news outlets. Who acts: Christopher, freelance journalist. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Sudan, sentence 447

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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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Christopher Allen was a freelance journalist who had worked for several US news outlets.

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**Who acts:** Christopher, freelance journalist · **What happens:** be, work · **To what, where:** freelance journalist

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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 (Christopher, freelance journalist), 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:447
# text = Christopher Allen was a freelance journalist who had worked for several US news outlets.
1	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Allen	Allen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	freelance	freelance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	journalist	journalist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	outlets	outlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Christopher | a freelance journalist |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | past · perfect | a freelance journalist |  |  |  |  | for several US news outlets | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for outlet=Beneficiary |

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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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