Mogadishu, sentence 473
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 station was modernized with Russian assistance following independence in 1960, and began offering home service in Somali, Amharic and Oromo.
What happens: modernize, follow, begin, offer · To what, where: station, 1960, service, Somali
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: 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 | 2 station | det |
| 2 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 modernized | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 modernized | aux:pass |
| 4 | modernized | modernize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 independence | case |
| 6 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 assistance | amod |
| 7 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 independence | compound |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 independence | amod |
| 9 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 modernized | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1960 | case |
| 11 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 modernized | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 modernized | conj |
| 15 | offering | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 began | xcomp |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 offering | advmod |
| 17 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offering | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Somali | case |
| 19 | Somali | Somali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 offering | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Amharic | punct |
| 21 | Amharic | Amharic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Somali | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Oromo | cc |
| 23 | Oromo | Oromo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Somali | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 modernized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | modernize | past · passive | the station | 1960 | with assistance following independence | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with independence=Instrument | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | offer | gerund | service | Somali and Amharic and Oromo | home property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent service=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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