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title: Due to a 1991 penal code (Public Order Law), women were not allowed… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: Due to a 1991 penal code (Public Order Law), women were not allowed to wear trousers in public, because it was interpreted as an "obscene outfit". Who acts: women. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sudan, sentence 586

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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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Due to a 1991 penal code (Public Order Law), women were not allowed to wear trousers in public, because it was interpreted as an "obscene outfit".

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**Who acts:** women · **What happens:** not allow, wear, interpret · **To what, where:** women, trousers, public, code

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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 (women), 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:586
# text = Due to a 1991 penal code (Public Order Law), women were not allowed to wear trousers in public, because it was interpreted as an "obscene outfit".
1	Due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	penal	penal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Public	Public	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Order	Order	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	interpreted	interpret	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	obscene	obscene	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	outfit	outfit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | past · passive |  | women |  |  |  | due a 1991 penal code | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | women *not said here* | trousers |  | public |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent trousers=Source |
| 3 | **interpret** | past · passive |  | code |  |  |  | as a obscene outfit | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as outfit=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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