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title: As in other countries, the growing importance of photography for mas… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: As in other countries, the growing importance of photography for mass media like newspapers, as well as for amateur photographers led to a wider photographic documentation and use of photographs in Sudan during the 20th century and beyond. Who acts: amateur photographers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «
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# Sudan, sentence 579

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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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As in other countries, the growing importance of photography for mass media like newspapers, as well as for amateur photographers led to a wider photographic documentation and use of photographs in Sudan during the 20th century and beyond.

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**Who acts:** amateur photographers · **What happens:** grow, lead, use · **To what, where:** newspapers, wider photographic documentation, photographs

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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 (amateur photographers), 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:579
# text = As in other countries, the growing importance of photography for mass media like newspapers, as well as for amateur photographers led to a wider photographic documentation and use of photographs in Sudan during the 20th century and beyond.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	photography	photography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	23	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	amateur	amateur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	photographers	photographer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
27	photographic	photographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	documentation	documentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	photographs	photograph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	during	during	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	38	amod	_	_
38	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past | amateur photographers | newspapers *not said here* |  | a wider photographic documentation and use of photographs in Sudan | century |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent newspaper=Theme to documentation=Destination |
| 4 | **use** |  |  | photographs in Sudan |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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