Somalia, sentence 165
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.
For most of the war, the Somali army scored continuous victories over the Ethiopian army, pursuing till Sidamo.
Who acts: Somali army · What happens: score, pursue · To what, where: continuous victories, Ethiopian army
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 (Somali army), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 most | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 scored | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 war | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 war | det |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 most | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 war | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 army | det |
| 8 | Somali | Somali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 army | compound |
| 9 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scored | nsubj |
| 10 | scored | score | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | continuous | continuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 victories | amod |
| 12 | victories | victory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 scored | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 army | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 army | det |
| 15 | Ethiopian | Ethiopian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 army | compound |
| 16 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scored | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pursuing | punct |
| 18 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 scored | advcl |
| 19 | till | till | ADP | _ | 20 Sidamo | case |
| 20 | Sidamo | Sidamo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 pursuing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 scored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | score | past | the Somali army | continuous victories | the Ethiopian army | for most of the war | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent victory=Theme for most=Source | ||
| 2 | pursue | gerund | the Somali army not said here | till Sidamo | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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