Somalia, sentence 197
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.
In the south, armed factions led by USC commanders General Mohamed Farah Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohamed, in particular, clashed as each sought to exert authority over the capital.
What happens: lead, clash, seek, exert · To what, where: armed factions, each, authority, capital, 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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 south | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 south | det |
| 3 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 south | punct |
| 5 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 factions | amod |
| 6 | factions | faction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 south | conj |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 factions | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 commanders | case |
| 9 | USC | usc | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 commanders | amod |
| 10 | commanders | commander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 led | obl |
| 11 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mohamed | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Mohamed | Mohamed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 commanders | appos |
| 13 | Farah | Farah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mohamed | flat |
| 14 | Aidid | Aidid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mohamed | flat |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Mahdi | cc |
| 16 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mahdi | compound |
| 17 | Mahdi | Mahdi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mohamed | conj |
| 18 | Mohamed | Mohamed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mahdi | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 particular | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 particular | case |
| 21 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 led | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 clashed | punct |
| 23 | clashed | clash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 particular | conj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 sought | mark |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 clashed | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 exert | mark |
| 28 | exert | exert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sought | xcomp |
| 29 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 exert | obj |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 capital | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 capital | det |
| 32 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 exert | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 south | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | armed factions not said here | by USC commanders | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by commander=Destination | ||||
| 2 | clash | participle | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | seek | participle · passive | each | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | exert not said to happen | to-infinitive | authority | the capital | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=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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