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title: However, the Funj would retain un-Islamic customs like the divine ki… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the Funj would retain un-Islamic customs like the divine kingship or the consumption of alcohol until the 18th century. Who acts: Funj. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sudan, sentence 117

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From Wikipedia, [«Sudan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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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However, the Funj would retain un-Islamic customs like the divine kingship or the consumption of alcohol until the 18th century.

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**Who acts:** Funj · **What happens:** retain, consume · **To what, where:** un-Islamic customs, alcohol

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sudan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Funj), 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:Sudan:117
# text = However, the Funj would retain un-Islamic customs like the divine kingship or the consumption of alcohol until the 18th century.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Funj	Funj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	retain	retain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	un-Islamic	un-islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	kingship	kingship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	consumption	consumption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	until	until	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** | would | the Funj | un-Islamic customs |  |  | century | like the divine kingship or the consumption of alcohol; however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **consume** |  |  | alcohol |  |  |  |  | nom consumption «act 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, «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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