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title: A subsequent Ottoman attempt to capture Dongola was repelled by the… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: A subsequent Ottoman attempt to capture Dongola was repelled by the Funj in 1585. Who acts: Funj. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sudan, sentence 120

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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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A subsequent Ottoman attempt to capture Dongola was repelled by the Funj in 1585.

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**Who acts:** Funj · **What happens:** capture, repel · **To what, where:** Dongola, subsequent Ottoman attempt, 1585

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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:120
# text = A subsequent Ottoman attempt to capture Dongola was repelled by the Funj in 1585.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	Dongola	Dongola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	repelled	repel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Funj	Funj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1585	1585	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | to-infinitive | the Funj *not said here* | Dongola |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dongola=Theme |
| 2 | **repel** | past · passive | the Funj | a subsequent Ottoman attempt |  | 1585 |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |

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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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