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title: Sympathisers of rebel groups are arbitrarily detained, as are foreig… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: Sympathisers of rebel groups are arbitrarily detained, as are foreign journalists, human-rights defenders, student activists and displaced people in and around Khartoum, some of whom face torture. Who acts: some. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sudan, sentence 462

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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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Sympathisers of rebel groups are arbitrarily detained, as are foreign journalists, human-rights defenders, student activists and displaced people in and around Khartoum, some of whom face torture.

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**Who acts:** some · **What happens:** detain, be, displace, torture · **To what, where:** Sympathisers, people, Khartoum

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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 (some), 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:462
# text = Sympathisers of rebel groups are arbitrarily detained, as are foreign journalists, human-rights defenders, student activists and displaced people in and around Khartoum, some of whom face torture.
1	Sympathisers	sympathiser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	arbitrarily	arbitrarily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	detained	detain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	journalists	journalist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	defenders	defender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	activists	activist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	displaced	displace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	around	around	ADP	IN	_	24	conj	_	_
27	Khartoum	Khartoum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
32	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	torture	torture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **detain** | present · passive |  | Sympathisers of rebel groups |  |  |  | arbitrarily *property* | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as foreign journalists; human rights defenders and student activists *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **displace** | past |  | people |  | Khartoum |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **torture** |  | some |  |  |  |  | of Khartoum | tree rules |

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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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