Somaliland, sentence 114
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.
After the RAF aircraft bombed Burao to the ground, the leaders of the rebellion acquiesced, agreeing to pay a fine for Gibb's death, but they refused to identify and apprehend the accused individuals.
Who acts: RAF aircraft, leaders, inhabitants, Gibb · What happens: bomb, acquiesce, agree, pay, refuse, not identify · To what, where: Burao, fine, accused individuals
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 (RAF aircraft, leaders, inhabitants, Gibb), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 bombed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 aircraft | det |
| 3 | RAF | RAF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 aircraft | compound |
| 4 | aircraft | aircraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bombed | nsubj |
| 5 | bombed | bomb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 acquiesced | advcl |
| 6 | Burao | Burao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bombed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bombed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bombed | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leaders | det |
| 12 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 acquiesced | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 rebellion | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rebellion | det |
| 15 | rebellion | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaders | nmod |
| 16 | acquiesced | acquiesce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 agreeing | punct |
| 18 | agreeing | agree | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 acquiesced | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pay | mark |
| 20 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 agreeing | xcomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fine | det |
| 22 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pay | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 death | case |
| 24 | Gibb | Gibb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 death | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Gibb | case |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pay | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 refused | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 refused | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 refused | nsubj |
| 30 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 acquiesced | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 identify | mark |
| 32 | identify | identify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 refused | xcomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 apprehend | cc |
| 34 | apprehend | apprehend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 identify | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 individuals | det |
| 36 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 individuals | amod |
| 37 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 apprehend | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 acquiesced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bomb | past | the RAF aircraft | Burao | to the ground | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burao=Patient | |||
| 2 | acquiesce | past | the leaders of the rebellion | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | gerund | the leaders of the rebellion not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the leaders of the rebellion not said here | a fine | for Gibb's death | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent fine=Asset for death=Theme | |||
| 5 | refuse | past | inhabitants = inhabitant | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not identify | to-infinitive | inhabitants = inhabitant not said here | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | apprehend | infinitive | inhabitants = inhabitant not said here | the accused individuals | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer individual=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | accuse | participle | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | die | Gibb | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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, «Somaliland», 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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