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title: Under the government of Omar al-Bashir (1989–2019), Sudan's media ou… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the government of Omar al-Bashir (1989–2019), Sudan's media outlets were given little freedom in their reporting. Who acts: outlets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sudan, sentence 465

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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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Under the government of Omar al-Bashir (1989–2019), Sudan's media outlets were given little freedom in their reporting.

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**Who acts:** outlets · **What happens:** give, report · **To what, where:** media outlets, government

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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 (outlets), 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:465
# text = Under the government of Omar al-Bashir (1989–2019), Sudan's media outlets were given little freedom in their reporting.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Omar	Omar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Bashir	Bashir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	outlets	outlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	reporting	reporting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | Sudan's media outlets |  | the government of Omar al |  | in outlets's reporting; little freedom *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient freedom=Theme |
| 2 | **report** |  | outlets *= outlet* |  |  |  |  |  | nom reporting «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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