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title: Aerial bombardments, river based operations, ambushes, and retaliato… — South Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: Aerial bombardments, river based operations, ambushes, and retaliatory attacks were reported. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# South Sudan, sentence 94

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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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Aerial bombardments, river based operations, ambushes, and retaliatory attacks were reported.

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**What happens:** base, report · **To what, where:** Aerial bombardments

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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: 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:94
# text = Aerial bombardments, river based operations, ambushes, and retaliatory attacks were reported.
1	Aerial	aerial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bombardments	bombardment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ambushes	ambush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	retaliatory	retaliatory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | river *compound* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **report** | past · passive |  | Aerial bombardments and based operations and ambushes |  |  |  | retaliatory attacks *nsubj:pass* | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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