Somaliland, sentence 103
From Wikipedia, «Somaliland», 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.
They revolted in opposition to a new tax that was imposed upon them, rioting and attacking British government officials.
Who acts: people · What happens: revolt, impose, riot, attack · To what, where: opposition, new tax, British government officials
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Somaliland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 revolted | nsubj |
| 2 | revolted | revolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 opposition | case |
| 4 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 revolted | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tax | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tax | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tax | amod |
| 8 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 revolted | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 imposed | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 imposed | aux:pass |
| 11 | imposed | impose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tax | acl:relcl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 imposed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rioting | punct |
| 15 | rioting | riot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 revolted | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 attacking | cc |
| 17 | attacking | attack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 rioting | conj |
| 18 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 officials | amod |
| 19 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 officials | compound |
| 20 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 attacking | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 revolted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revolt | past | people | opposition | to a new tax | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | impose | past · passive | a new tax | upon people | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | riot | gerund | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | attack | gerund | people not said here | British government officials | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent official=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.
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