Somalia, sentence 128
From Wikipedia, «Somalia», 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 trusteeship gave Somalis the opportunity to gain experience in Western political education and self-government.
Who acts: trusteeship · What happens: give, gain · To what, where: Somalis, experience
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Somalia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trusteeship), 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 trusteeship | det |
| 2 | trusteeship | trusteeship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Somalis | somali | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 opportunity | det |
| 6 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 gain | mark |
| 8 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 opportunity | acl |
| 9 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gain | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 education | case |
| 11 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 education | amod |
| 12 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 education | amod |
| 13 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gain | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 government | cc |
| 15 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 government | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 self | punct |
| 17 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 education | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the trusteeship | Somalis | the opportunity obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent somali=Recipient opportunity=Theme | |||
| 2 | gain | to-infinitive | the trusteeship not said here | experience | in Western political education and self government | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient experience=Extent in education=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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