Hargeisa, sentence 6
From Wikipedia, «Hargeisa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In 1960, the Somaliland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom and as scheduled united days later with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic on 1 July.
Who acts: Somaliland Protectorate · What happens: gain, schedule, form · To what, where: independence, Somali Republic
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Hargeisa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Somaliland Protectorate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1960 | case |
| 2 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 gained | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1960 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Protectorate | det |
| 5 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Protectorate | compound |
| 6 | Protectorate | Protectorate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gained | nsubj |
| 7 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gained | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Kingdom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Kingdom | det |
| 11 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 12 Kingdom | flat |
| 12 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gained | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 scheduled | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 scheduled | advmod |
| 15 | scheduled | schedule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gained | conj |
| 16 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 days | amod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 later | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 scheduled | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Territory | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Territory | det |
| 21 | Trust | Trust | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Territory | compound |
| 22 | Territory | Territory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 scheduled | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Somaliland | case |
| 24 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Territory | nmod |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 Italian | punct |
| 26 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Italian | amod |
| 27 | Italian | Italian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Somaliland | appos |
| 28 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Italian | flat |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 Italian | punct |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 form | mark |
| 31 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 scheduled | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Republic | det |
| 33 | Somali | Somali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Republic | compound |
| 34 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 form | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 July | case |
| 36 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 July | nummod |
| 37 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 form | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | the Somaliland Protectorate | independence | from the United Kingdom; in 1960 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient independence=Extent in 1960=Attribute from kingdom=Initial_State | |||
| 2 | schedule | participle | the Somaliland Protectorate not said here | with the Trust Territory of Somaliland; late property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | to-infinitive | the Somaliland Protectorate not said here | the Somali Republic | july | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location republic=Theme |
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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