Somaliland, sentence 125
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.
The latter course was decided upon, and during the first months of 1945, the advance posts were withdrawn, and the British administration confined to the coast town of Berbera.
Who acts: British administration · What happens: decide, withdraw, confine · To what, where: latter course, advance posts, coast town
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 (British administration), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 course | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 course | amod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 decided | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 decided | aux:pass |
| 5 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 decided | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 withdrawn | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 withdrawn | cc |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 months | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 months | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 months | amod |
| 12 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 withdrawn | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 1945 | case |
| 14 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 months | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 months | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 posts | det |
| 17 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 posts | compound |
| 18 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 withdrawn | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 withdrawn | aux:pass |
| 20 | withdrawn | withdraw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 decided | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 confined | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 confined | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 administration | det |
| 24 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 administration | amod |
| 25 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 confined | nsubj |
| 26 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 withdrawn | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 town | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 town | det |
| 29 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 town | compound |
| 30 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 confined | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Berbera | case |
| 32 | Berbera | Berbera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 town | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · passive | the latter course | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | withdraw | past · passive | the advance posts | month | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | confine | participle | the British administration | the coast town of Berbera | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to town=Destination |
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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