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title: Italian troops occupied Kassala and other border areas from Italian… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: Italian troops occupied Kassala and other border areas from Italian Somaliland during 1940. Who acts: Italian troops. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sudan, sentence 197

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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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Italian troops occupied Kassala and other border areas from Italian Somaliland during 1940.

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**Who acts:** Italian troops · **What happens:** occupy · **To what, where:** Kassala, Italian

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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 (Italian troops), 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:197
# text = Italian troops occupied Kassala and other border areas from Italian Somaliland during 1940.
1	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nsubj	_	_
3	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Kassala	Kassala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Italian	Italian	PROPN	NNP	_	3	obl	_	_
11	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1940	1940	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | past | Italian troops | Kassala and other border areas |  | Italian | during 1940 |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus kassala=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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