Mogadishu, sentence 99
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.
Ajuran merchants began to look for new linkages and regional trade opportunities since the Abgaal had commandeered the existing trading networks.
Who acts: Ajuran merchants, Abgaal · What happens: begin, look, commandeer, exist · To what, where: existing trading networks
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 (Ajuran merchants, Abgaal), 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 | Ajuran | ajuran | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 merchants | amod |
| 2 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 linkages | case |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 linkages | amod |
| 8 | linkages | linkage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 opportunities | cc |
| 10 | regional | regional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 opportunities | amod |
| 11 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opportunities | compound |
| 12 | opportunities | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 linkages | conj |
| 13 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 17 commandeered | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Abgaal | det |
| 15 | Abgaal | Abgaal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 commandeered | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 commandeered | aux |
| 17 | commandeered | commandeer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 look | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 networks | det |
| 19 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 networks | amod |
| 20 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 networks | compound |
| 21 | networks | network | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 commandeered | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Ajuran merchants | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | Ajuran merchants not said here | for new linkages and regional trade opportunities | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for linkage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | commandeer | past · perfect | the Abgaal | the existing trading networks | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent network=Patient | ||||
| 4 | exist | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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