--- title: The U.S. State Department's human-rights report issued in March 2007… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics description: The U.S. State Department's human-rights report issued in March 2007 claims that "*[a]*ll parties to the conflagration committed serious abuses, including widespread killing of civilians, rape as a tool of war, systematic torture, robbery and recruitment of child soldiers." 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The U.S. State Department's human-rights report issued in March 2007 claims that "\*\[a\]\*ll parties to the conflagration committed serious abuses, including widespread killing of civilians, rape as a tool of war, systematic torture, robbery and recruitment of child soldiers." **Who acts:** March, ll parties · **What happens:** issue, claim, commit, kill, recruit · **To what, where:** human rights, serious abuses, civilians, child soldiers · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (March, ll parties), 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:459 # text = The U.S. State Department's human-rights report issued in March 2007 claims that "*[a]*ll parties to the conflagration committed serious abuses, including widespread killing of civilians, rape as a tool of war, systematic torture, robbery and recruitment of child soldiers." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 U.S. U.S. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 State State PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Department Department PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 rights right NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 report report VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 issued issue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 2007 2007 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nmod:unmarked _ _ 14 claims claim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 * * PUNCT NFP _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 * * PUNCT NFP _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ll ll NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 conflagration conflagration NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 committed commit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 28 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 abuses abuse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 including including ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 widespread widespread ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 killing killing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 civilians civilian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 rape rape NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 tool tool NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 systematic systematic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 torture torture NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 robbery robbery NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 recruitment recruitment NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **issue** | present · passive | | the U.S. State Department's human rights | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | March 2007 | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **commit** *in a quote* | past | ll parties to the conflagration | serious abuses and rape as a tool of war and systematic torture and robbery and recruitment of child soldiers | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abuse=Theme | | 4 | **kill** *in a quote* | | | civilians | | | | | nom killing «event transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **recruit** *in a quote* | | | child soldiers | | | | | nom recruitment «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 458](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sudan/458/) - next →: [sentence 460](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sudan/460/) - ↑ back to [Sudan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sudan/)