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title: But Mahmoud was a supporter of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; the reg… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: But Mahmoud was a supporter of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; the region was caught between the Empire's efforts to save the Jews, and moderate Arab calls to halt migration. Who acts: Mahmoud, moderate Arab. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sudan, sentence 194

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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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But Mahmoud was a supporter of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; the region was caught between the Empire's efforts to save the Jews, and moderate Arab calls to halt migration.

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**Who acts:** Mahmoud, moderate Arab · **What happens:** be, catch, save, call, halt · **To what, where:** supporter, region, Jews, migration · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mahmoud, moderate Arab), 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:194
# text = But Mahmoud was a supporter of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; the region was caught between the Empire's efforts to save the Jews, and moderate Arab calls to halt migration.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	Mahmoud	Mahmoud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	supporter	supporter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Mufti	Mufti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	moderate	moderate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Arab	Arab	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	_
30	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	halt	halt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mahmoud | a supporter |  |  |  | of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | past · passive |  | the region |  |  |  | between the Empire's efforts | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | to-infinitive |  | the Jews |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jew=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present | moderate Arab |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **halt** | to-infinitive | moderate Arab *not said here* | migration |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector migration=Eventuality |

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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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