Somalia, sentence 138
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 referendum turned out in favour of a continued association with France, largely due to a combined yes vote by the sizeable Afar ethnic group and resident Europeans.
Who acts: referendum, sizeable Afar ethnic group · What happens: turn out, continue, combine, favour, vote · To what, where: due Europeans, favour, continued association
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 (referendum, sizeable Afar ethnic group), 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 referendum | det |
| 2 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 turned | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 favour | case |
| 6 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 association | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 association | det |
| 9 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 association | amod |
| 10 | association | association | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 favour | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 France | case |
| 12 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 association | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Europeans | punct |
| 14 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 29 Europeans | advmod |
| 15 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 29 Europeans | amod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 due | fixed |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 vote | det |
| 18 | combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 vote | amod |
| 19 | yes | yes | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vote | compound |
| 20 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 due | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 group | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 group | det |
| 23 | sizeable | sizeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 group | amod |
| 24 | Afar | Afar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 group | compound |
| 25 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 group | amod |
| 26 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vote | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 resident | cc |
| 28 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 group | conj |
| 29 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past | the referendum | due Europeans | favour of a continued association with France | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in favour=Location | |||
| 2 | continue | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | combine | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | favour | a continued association with France | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | vote | the sizeable Afar ethnic group and resident | nom vote «act transitive»: by=agent |
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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