Somalia, sentence 182
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.
This reproduction of aggressive strategies aimed at stifling dissent and retaining authority over the populace was a hallmark of the government's repressive actions in the South.
Who acts: reproduction, aggressive strategies, government · What happens: aim, stifle, retain, be, reproduce, act · To what, where: aggressive strategies, dissent, authority, populace, hallmark, South
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 (reproduction, aggressive strategies, government), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 reproduction | det |
| 2 | reproduction | reproduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hallmark | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 strategies | case |
| 4 | aggressive | aggressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strategies | amod |
| 5 | strategies | strategy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 reproduction | nmod |
| 6 | aimed | aim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 strategies | acl |
| 7 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 stifling | mark |
| 8 | stifling | stifle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 aimed | advcl |
| 9 | dissent | dissent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stifling | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 retaining | cc |
| 11 | retaining | retain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stifling | conj |
| 12 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 retaining | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 populace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 populace | det |
| 15 | populace | populace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 retaining | obl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hallmark | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hallmark | det |
| 18 | hallmark | hallmark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 actions | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 government | det |
| 21 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 actions | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 government | case |
| 23 | repressive | repressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 actions | amod |
| 24 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hallmark | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 South | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 South | det |
| 27 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 actions | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 hallmark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aim | participle | aggressive strategies not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | stifle | gerund | dissent | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dissent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | retain | gerund | authority | the populace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | this reproduction of aggressive strategies | a hallmark | of the government's repressive actions in the South | tree rules | |||
| 5 | reproduce | aggressive strategies | nom reproduction «process intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | act | the government | the South | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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