Mogadishu, sentence 388
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.
The Mogadishu Cathedral was built in 1928 by the colonial authorities in Italian Somaliland in a Norman Gothic style; it was severely damaged during the civil war but remains an important landmark.
Who acts: colonial authorities · What happens: build, damage, remain · To what, where: Mogadishu Cathedral, 1928, Cathedral, important landmark
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 (colonial authorities), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cathedral | det |
| 2 | Mogadishu | Mogadishu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cathedral | compound |
| 3 | Cathedral | Cathedral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | aux:pass |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1928 | case |
| 7 | 1928 | 1928 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 built | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 authorities | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 authorities | det |
| 10 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 authorities | amod |
| 11 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | obl:agent |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Italian | case |
| 13 | Italian | Italian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 authorities | nmod |
| 14 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Italian | flat |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 style | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 style | det |
| 17 | Norman | norman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 style | amod |
| 18 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 style | amod |
| 19 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 damaged | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 damaged | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 damaged | aux:pass |
| 23 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 24 damaged | advmod |
| 24 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 built | parataxis |
| 25 | during | during | ADP | _ | 28 war | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 war | det |
| 27 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 war | amod |
| 28 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 damaged | obl |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 remains | cc |
| 30 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 damaged | conj |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 landmark | det |
| 32 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 landmark | amod |
| 33 | landmark | landmark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 remains | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the colonial authorities in Italian | the Mogadishu Cathedral | 1928 | in a Norman Gothic style | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | ||
| 2 | damage | past · passive | Cathedral | during the civil war | severely property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | remain | present | a important landmark | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme landmark=Attribute |
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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