Mogadishu, sentence 32
From Wikipedia, «Mogadishu», 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.
During ancient times, Mogadishu was part of the Somali city-states that engaged in a lucrative trade network connecting Somali merchants with Phoenicia, Ptolemic Egypt, Greece, Parthian Persia, Sabaeans, Nabataea and the Roman Empire.
Who acts: Mogadishu, city states, lucrative trade network, Somali · What happens: be, engage, connect, merchant · To what, where: part, lucrative trade network
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mogadishu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mogadishu, city states, lucrative trade network, Somali), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 part | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 5 | Mogadishu | Mogadishu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 part | cop |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 states | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 states | det |
| 10 | Somali | Somali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 states | nsubj |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 states | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 states | punct |
| 13 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 part | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 engaged | nsubj |
| 15 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 states | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 network | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 network | det |
| 18 | lucrative | lucrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 network | amod |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 network | compound |
| 20 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 engaged | obl |
| 21 | connecting | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 network | acl |
| 22 | Somali | Somali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 merchants | nsubj |
| 23 | merchants | merchant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 connecting | acl:relcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Phoenicia | case |
| 25 | Phoenicia | Phoenicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 merchants | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Egypt | punct |
| 27 | Ptolemic | Ptolemic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Egypt | compound |
| 28 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Phoenicia | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Greece | punct |
| 30 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Phoenicia | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Persia | punct |
| 32 | Parthian | parthian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Persia | amod |
| 33 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Phoenicia | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Sabaeans | punct |
| 35 | Sabaeans | Sabaean | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Phoenicia | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Nabataea | punct |
| 37 | Nabataea | Nabataea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Phoenicia | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Empire | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Empire | det |
| 40 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Empire | compound |
| 41 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Phoenicia | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mogadishu | part | time | of the city states Somali | tree rules | ||
| 2 | engage | past | the city states Somali | in a lucrative trade network goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in network=Goal | ||||
| 3 | connect | gerund | a lucrative trade network not said here | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | merchant | present | Somali | with Phoenicia and Ptolemic Egypt and Greece and Parthian Persia and Sabaeans and Nabataea and the Roman Empire | tree rules |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Mogadishu», 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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