Somalia, sentence 284

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 effort led in 1989 to a decision by the Somali government to adhere to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which banned the trade of elephant ivory.

Who acts: Wild Fauna · What happens: lead, adhere, ban, trade · To what, where: effort, Convention, International, trade, elephant ivory

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 (Wild Fauna), 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 effort	det
2	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 effort	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1989	case
5	1989	1989	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 led	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 decision	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 decision	det
8	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 1989	nmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 government	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 government	det
11	Somali	somali	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 government	amod
12	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl:agent
13	to	to	PART	_	14 adhere	mark
14	adhere	adhere	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 led	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Convention	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Convention	det
17	Convention	Convention	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 adhere	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 International	case
19	International	International	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Convention	nmod
20	Trade	Trade	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 International	flat
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 Species	case
22	Endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Species	amod
23	Species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 adhere	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Fauna	case
25	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Fauna	amod
26	Fauna	Fauna	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Species	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Flora	cc
28	Flora	Flora	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Fauna	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 banned	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 banned	nsubj
31	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 Fauna	acl:relcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trade	det
33	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 banned	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 ivory	case
35	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ivory	compound
36	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 trade	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 effort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	participle		this effort not said here		in 1989 to a decision; the Somali government obl:agent	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition in 1989=Patient
2	adhere	to-infinitive		the Convention	International	in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora	tree rules
3	ban	past	Wild Fauna and Flora	the trade of elephant ivory			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trade=Theme
5	trade			elephant ivory			nom trade «act transitive»: of=patient

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Somalia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Somalia, sentence 284