Somalia, sentence 359
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.
According to Article 54 of the national constitution, the allocation of powers and resources between the Federal Government and the Federal Republic of Somalia's constituent Federal Member States shall be negotiated and agreed upon by the Federal Government and the Federal Member States, except in matters pertaining to foreign affairs, national defence, citizenship and immigration, and monetary policy.
Who acts: matters, Federal Member States · What happens: accord, negotiate, agree, pertain, policy, allocate · To what, where: Federal Member States, powers
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 (matters, Federal Member States), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 54 | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | Article | Article | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 54 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 54 | 54 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 constitution | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 constitution | det |
| 7 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 constitution | amod |
| 8 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 54 | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 allocation | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 allocation | det |
| 11 | allocation | allocation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 54 | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 powers | case |
| 13 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 allocation | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 resources | cc |
| 15 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 powers | conj |
| 16 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 Government | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Government | det |
| 18 | Federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Government | amod |
| 19 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 allocation | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Republic | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Republic | det |
| 22 | Federal | Federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Republic | amod |
| 23 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Government | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Somalia | case |
| 25 | Somalia | Somalia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Republic | nmod |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Somalia | case |
| 27 | constituent | constituent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Somalia | conj |
| 28 | Federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 States | amod |
| 29 | Member | Member | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 States | compound |
| 30 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 negotiated | obl |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 negotiated | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 negotiated | aux:pass |
| 33 | negotiated | negotiate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 constituent | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 agreed | cc |
| 35 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 negotiated | conj |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 Government | case |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 Government | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Government | det |
| 39 | Federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Government | amod |
| 40 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 agreed | obl:agent |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 policy | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 States | det |
| 43 | Federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 States | amod |
| 44 | Member | Member | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 States | compound |
| 45 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 64 policy | nsubj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 matters | punct |
| 47 | except | except | ADP | _ | 49 matters | case |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 matters | case |
| 49 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 States | nmod |
| 50 | pertaining | pertain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 49 matters | acl |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 affairs | case |
| 52 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 affairs | amod |
| 53 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 pertaining | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 defence | punct |
| 55 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 defence | amod |
| 56 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 affairs | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 citizenship | punct |
| 58 | citizenship | citizenship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 defence | appos |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 immigration | cc |
| 60 | immigration | immigration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 citizenship | conj |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 policy | punct |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 policy | cc |
| 63 | monetary | monetary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 policy | amod |
| 64 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Government | conj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 54 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | negotiate | shall · passive | Federal Member States | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | participle | the Federal Government and monetary policy obl:agent | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pertain | gerund | matters not said here | to foreign affairs and national defence | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to affair=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | policy | the Federal Member States except matters | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | allocate | powers and resources | between the Federal Government and the Federal Republic of Somalia | nom allocation «possession transitive»: of=patient between=obl |
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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