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title: Sudan was occupied by Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty in the 18… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: Sudan was occupied by Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty in the 1800s and governed as an Anglo-Egyptian condominium from 1899 until Sudanese independence in 1956. Who acts: Egypt. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Sudan, sentence 7

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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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Sudan was occupied by Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty in the 1800s and governed as an Anglo-Egyptian condominium from 1899 until Sudanese independence in 1956.

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**Who acts:** Egypt · **What happens:** occupy, govern · **To what, where:** Sudan, Ali dynasty, 1956

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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 (Egypt), 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:7
# text = Sudan was occupied by Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty in the 1800s and governed as an Anglo-Egyptian condominium from 1899 until Sudanese independence in 1956.
1	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Muhammad	Muhammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	governed	govern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	Anglo	Anglo	X	AFX	_	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	condominium	condominium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1899	1899	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	until	until	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Sudanese	Sudanese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1956	1956	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | past · passive | Egypt | Sudan |  | the Ali dynasty in the 1800s |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **govern** | participle | Egypt *not said here* |  |  | 1956 | until Sudanese independence | as a Egyptian condominium from 1899 | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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