Mogadishu, sentence 55
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 Gibil Madow (Dark Skins) faction of the Benadiri are said to hail from the Somali clan groups from inland which make up the majority of Benadiris with a small minority being Gibil Cads (Light Skins) which descend from Muslim immigrants.
Who acts: Somali clan groups, Gibil Cads · What happens: say, hail, make up, be, descend · To what, where: Gibil Madow, Somali clan groups, majority, Gibil Cads, Muslim immigrants · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Somali clan groups, Gibil Cads), 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 Madow | det |
| 2 | Gibil | Gibil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Madow | compound |
| 3 | Madow | Madow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 Skins | punct |
| 5 | Dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Skins | amod |
| 6 | Skins | Skin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Madow | nmod |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 Skins | punct |
| 8 | faction | faction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Skins | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Benadiri | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Benadiri | det |
| 11 | Benadiri | Benadiri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 faction | nmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | aux:pass |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hail | mark |
| 15 | hail | hail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | xcomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 groups | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 groups | det |
| 18 | Somali | somali | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 groups | amod |
| 19 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 groups | compound |
| 20 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hail | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 inland | case |
| 22 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 20 groups | nmod |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 make | nsubj |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 groups | acl:relcl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 make | compound:prt |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 majority | det |
| 27 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Benadiris | case |
| 29 | Benadiris | Benadiris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 majority | nmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 minority | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 minority | det |
| 32 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 minority | amod |
| 33 | minority | minority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obl |
| 34 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 Cads | cop |
| 35 | Gibil | Gibil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Cads | compound |
| 36 | Cads | cad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 minority | conj |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 Skins | punct |
| 38 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Skins | compound |
| 39 | Skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 Cads | appos |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 Skins | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 descend | nsubj |
| 42 | descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 Cads | acl:relcl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 immigrants | case |
| 44 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 immigrants | amod |
| 45 | immigrants | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 descend | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | the Gibil Madow Dark Skins | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hail | to-infinitive | the Somali clan groups | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 3 | make up | present | the Somali clan groups | the majority of Benadiris | with a small minority and Gibil Cads | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme majority=Pivot | |||
| 4 | is a | gerund | the Somali clan groups not said here | Gibil Cads | Light Skins appos | tree rules | |||
| 5 | descend | present | Gibil Cads | Muslim immigrants | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from immigrant=Location |
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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