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title: After a power struggle amongst his deputies, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad,… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: After a power struggle amongst his deputies, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, with the help primarily of the Baggara of western Sudan, overcame the opposition of the others and emerged as the unchallenged leader of the Mahdiyah. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sudan, sentence 154

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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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After a power struggle amongst his deputies, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, with the help primarily of the Baggara of western Sudan, overcame the opposition of the others and emerged as the unchallenged leader of the Mahdiyah.

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**What happens:** overcome, emerge, help, oppose · **To what, where:** opposition, Baggara, others

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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: 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:154
# text = After a power struggle amongst his deputies, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, with the help primarily of the Baggara of western Sudan, overcame the opposition of the others and emerged as the unchallenged leader of the Mahdiyah.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
5	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	deputies	deputy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Abdallahi	Abdallahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	ibn	Ibn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	Muhammad	Muhammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Baggara	Baggara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
24	overcame	overcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	unchallenged	unchallenged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Mahdiyah	Mahdiyah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overcome** | past |  | the opposition of the others |  |  | after a power struggle amongst Muhammad's deputies and the help of the Baggara of western Sudan |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot opposition=Theme |
| 2 | **emerge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as the unchallenged leader of the Mahdiyah | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** |  |  | the Baggara of western Sudan |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **oppose** |  |  | the others |  |  |  |  | nom opposition «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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