Mogadishu, sentence 85
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.
In 1542, the Portuguese commander João de Sepúvelda led a small fleet on an expedition to the Somali coast.
Who acts: Portuguese commander · What happens: lead · To what, where: small fleet, 1542
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 (Portuguese commander), 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 1542 | case |
| 2 | 1542 | 1542 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 led | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1542 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 commander | det |
| 5 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 commander | amod |
| 6 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | nsubj |
| 7 | João | João | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 commander | appos |
| 8 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 João | flat |
| 9 | Sepúvelda | Sepúvelda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 João | flat |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fleet | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fleet | amod |
| 13 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 expedition | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 expedition | det |
| 16 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 coast | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 coast | det |
| 19 | Somali | Somali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 coast | compound |
| 20 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 expedition | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the Portuguese commander | a small fleet | 1542 | on a expedition to the Somali coast | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme in 1542=Destination |
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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