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title: The first democratic elections in South Sudan since the start of the… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: The first democratic elections in South Sudan since the start of the civil war were scheduled for 2023 by the peace agreement that ended the war officially, but the transitional government and opposition agreed in 2022 to move them to late 2024 instead. Who acts: peace agreement, transitional govern
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# South Sudan, sentence 91

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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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The first democratic elections in South Sudan since the start of the civil war were scheduled for 2023 by the peace agreement that ended the war officially, but the transitional government and opposition agreed in 2022 to move them to late 2024 instead.

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**Who acts:** peace agreement, transitional government · **What happens:** schedule, end, agree, move, start · **To what, where:** first democratic elections, war, 2022, elections, late 2024, civil 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 (peace agreement, transitional government), 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:91
# text = The first democratic elections in South Sudan since the start of the civil war were scheduled for 2023 by the peace agreement that ended the war officially, but the transitional government and opposition agreed in 2022 to move them to late 2024 instead.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	since	since	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	scheduled	schedule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	transitional	transitional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	obl	_	_
44	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **schedule** | past · passive | the peace agreement | the first democratic elections in South Sudan since the start of the civil war |  |  |  | for 2023 | tree rules |
| 2 | **end** | past | the peace agreement | the war |  |  |  | officially *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle | the transitional government and opposition |  |  | 2022 |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **move** | to-infinitive | the transitional government and opposition *not said here* | elections *= election* |  | late 2024 |  | instead *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme to 2024=Trajectory |
| 5 | **start** |  |  | the civil war |  |  |  |  | nom start «event 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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