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title: The war that took place between Pharaoh Taharqa and the Assyrian kin… — Sudan · tree and pragmatics
description: The war that took place between Pharaoh Taharqa and the Assyrian king Sennacherib was a decisive event in Western history, with the Nubians being defeated in their attempts to gain a foothold in the Near East by Assyria. Who acts: war, Nubians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sudan» with its dependency t
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# Sudan, sentence 76

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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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The war that took place between Pharaoh Taharqa and the Assyrian king Sennacherib was a decisive event in Western history, with the Nubians being defeated in their attempts to gain a foothold in the Near East by Assyria.

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**Who acts:** war, Nubians · **What happens:** take, be, defeat, gain, attempt · **To what, where:** place, decisive event, Western history, Nubians, attempts, foothold

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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 (war, Nubians), 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:76
# text = The war that took place between Pharaoh Taharqa and the Assyrian king Sennacherib was a decisive event in Western history, with the Nubians being defeated in their attempts to gain a foothold in the Near East by Assyria.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Taharqa	Taharqa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Assyrian	assyrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	Sennacherib	Sennacherib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	decisive	decisive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Nubians	Nubian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	foothold	foothold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Assyria	Assyria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the war | place and the Assyrian king |  |  |  | between Pharaoh | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the war | a decisive event |  | Western history |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **defeat** | gerund · passive |  | the Nubians |  | Nubians's attempts |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gain** | to-infinitive |  | a foothold |  |  |  | by Assyria; in the East | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient foothold=Extent in east=Attribute |
| 5 | **attempt** |  | Nubians *= nubian* |  |  |  |  |  | nom attempt «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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