Somalia, sentence 63
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 Leo Africanus, the Adal Sultanate was governed by local Somali dynasties and its realm encompassed the geographical area between the Bab-el-Mandeb and Cape Guardafui.
Who acts: local Somali dynasties, Leo · What happens: accord, govern, encompass · To what, where: Adal Sultanate, geographical area
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 (local Somali dynasties, Leo), 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 | 3 Leo | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 encompassed | nsubj |
| 4 | Africanus | Africanus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Leo | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 governed | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sultanate | det |
| 7 | Adal | Adal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sultanate | compound |
| 8 | Sultanate | Sultanate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 governed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 governed | aux:pass |
| 10 | governed | govern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Leo | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 dynasties | case |
| 12 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dynasties | amod |
| 13 | Somali | somali | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dynasties | amod |
| 14 | dynasties | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 governed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 realm | cc |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 realm | nmod:poss |
| 17 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dynasties | conj |
| 18 | encompassed | encompass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 area | det |
| 20 | geographical | geographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 area | amod |
| 21 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 encompassed | obj |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 26 el | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 el | det |
| 24 | Bab | bab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 el | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Bab | punct |
| 26 | el | el | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 area | nmod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Mandeb | punct |
| 28 | Mandeb | Mandeb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 el | appos |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Guardafui | cc |
| 30 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Guardafui | flat |
| 31 | Guardafui | Guardafui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mandeb | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 encompassed | 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 | govern | past · passive | local Somali dynasties and dynasty's realm | the Adal Sultanate | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | encompass | past | Leo | the geographical area | between the Bab el | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot area=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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