Somalia, sentence 181
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 clampdown initiated by Barre's government extended its reach beyond the initial bombings in the north to encompass various regions across the country.
Who acts: clampdown · What happens: initiate, extend, encompass · To what, where: clampdown, reach, various regions, country
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 (clampdown), 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 clampdown | det |
| 2 | clampdown | clampdown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extended | nsubj |
| 3 | initiated | initiate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 clampdown | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 government | case |
| 5 | Barre | Barre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 government | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Barre | case |
| 7 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 initiated | obl:agent |
| 8 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 reach | nmod:poss |
| 10 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extended | obj |
| 11 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 14 bombings | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bombings | det |
| 13 | initial | initial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bombings | amod |
| 14 | bombings | bombing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 extended | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 north | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 north | det |
| 17 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bombings | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 encompass | mark |
| 19 | encompass | encompass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 extended | advcl |
| 20 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 regions | amod |
| 21 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 encompass | obj |
| 22 | across | across | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 encompass | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 extended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | initiate | participle | the clampdown not said here | Barre's government obl:agent | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | extend | past | the clampdown | clampdown's reach | beyond the initial bombings in the north | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent reach=Theme | |||
| 3 | encompass | to-infinitive | the clampdown not said here | various regions | the country | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot region=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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