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title: In Ahmose's writings, the Kushites are described as archers, "Now af… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: In Ahmose's writings, the Kushites are described as archers, "Now after his Majesty had slain the Bedoin of Asia, he sailed upstream to Upper Nubia to destroy the Nubian bowmen." Who acts: Majesty, Ahmose. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sudan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sudan, sentence 61

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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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In Ahmose's writings, the Kushites are described as archers, "Now after his Majesty had slain the Bedoin of Asia, he sailed upstream to Upper Nubia to destroy the Nubian bowmen."

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**Who acts:** Majesty, Ahmose · **What happens:** describe, slay, sail, destroy, write · **To what, where:** Kushites, writings, Bedoin, Upper, Nubian bowmen

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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 (Majesty, Ahmose), 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:61
# text = In Ahmose's writings, the Kushites are described as archers, "Now after his Majesty had slain the Bedoin of Asia, he sailed upstream to Upper Nubia to destroy the Nubian bowmen."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Ahmose	Ahmose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Kushites	Kushite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	archers	archer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
15	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Bedoin	Bedoin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	upstream	upstream	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Upper	Upper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	Nubia	Nubia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Nubian	nubian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	bowmen	bowman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive |  | the Kushites |  | Ahmose's writings |  | as archers | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as archer=Attribute |
| 2 | **slay** *in a quote* | past · perfect | BC's Majesty | the Bedoin of Asia |  |  | now |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedoin=Patient |
| 3 | **sail** *in a quote* | past | Majesty |  |  | Upper |  | upstream *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to upper=Trajectory |
| 4 | **destroy** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Majesty *not said here* | the Nubian bowmen |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowman=Patient |
| 5 | **write** |  | Ahmose |  |  |  |  |  | nom writing «act 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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