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title: The coup was led by general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who subsequently… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: The coup was led by general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who subsequently declared a state of emergency. Who acts: general Abdel. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sudan, sentence 284

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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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The coup was led by general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who subsequently declared a state of emergency.

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**Who acts:** general Abdel · **What happens:** lead, declare · **To what, where:** coup, state

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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 (general Abdel), 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:284
# text = The coup was led by general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who subsequently declared a state of emergency.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Abdel	Abdel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
8	Fattah	Fattah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Burhan	Burhan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past · passive | general Abdel and Burhan | the coup |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past |  | a state of emergency |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; subsequently *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Attribute |

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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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