--- title: The protests continued after the overthrow of his government on 11 A… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics description: The protests continued after the overthrow of his government on 11 April 2019 after a massive sit-in in front of the Sudanese Armed Forces main headquarters, after which the chiefs of staff decided to intervene and they ordered the arrest of President al-Bashir and declared a three-month state of em --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sudan/271/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Sudan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sudan/) / 271 # Sudan, sentence 271 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. The protests continued after the overthrow of his government on 11 April 2019 after a massive sit-in in front of the Sudanese Armed Forces main headquarters, after which the chiefs of staff decided to intervene and they ordered the arrest of President al-Bashir and declared a three-month state of emergency. **Who acts:** protests, chiefs · **What happens:** continue, decide, intervene, order, declare, overthrow · **To what, where:** 11, arrest, month state, government, al 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 (protests, chiefs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:271 # text = The protests continued after the overthrow of his government on 11 April 2019 after a massive sit-in in front of the Sudanese Armed Forces main headquarters, after which the chiefs of staff decided to intervene and they ordered the arrest of President al-Bashir and declared a three-month state of emergency. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 protests protest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 overthrow overthrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 12 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 flat _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 16 massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 17 sit sit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 Sudanese Sudanese PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 Armed armed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 27 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 headquarters headquarters NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 after after ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 chiefs chief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 decided decide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 intervene intervene VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 arrest arrest NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod:desc _ _ 46 al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 Bashir Bashir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 flat _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 52 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 54 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 55 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | past | the protests | | | 11 April | after the overthrow of government's government; after a massive front sit of the Sudanese Armed Forces and main headquarters | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **decide** | past | the chiefs of staff | | | | | which *obl* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **intervene** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the chiefs of staff *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **order** | past | Protests *= protest* | the arrest of al President | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrest=Theme | | 5 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the chiefs of staff *not said here* | a month state of emergency | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Attribute | | 6 | **overthrow** | | | government's government | | | | | nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **arrest** | | | al President | | | | | nom arrest «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 270](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sudan/270/) - next →: [sentence 272](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sudan/272/) - ↑ back to [Sudan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sudan/)