Somaliland, sentence 186
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Conflict re-erupted when troops of the government attacked the airport to drive out the Eidagalley militias in October 1994, sparking a new war that would spread out of Hargeisa and last until around April 1995, with a rebel defeat.
Who acts: Conflict, troops, new war · What happens: re-erupt, attack, drive out, spark, spread out · To what, where: last 1995, airport, Eidagalley militias, new war, Hargeisa
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 (Conflict, troops, new war), 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 | Conflict | Conflict | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 re-erupted | nsubj |
| 2 | re-erupted | re-erupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 attacked | advmod |
| 4 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 attacked | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 government | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 government | det |
| 7 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 troops | nmod |
| 8 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 re-erupted | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 airport | det |
| 10 | airport | airport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attacked | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 drive | mark |
| 12 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 attacked | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 drive | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 militias | det |
| 15 | Eidagalley | Eidagalley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 militias | compound |
| 16 | militias | militia | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drive | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 October | case |
| 18 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 militias | nmod |
| 19 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 October | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sparking | punct |
| 21 | sparking | spark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 re-erupted | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 war | det |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 war | amod |
| 24 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sparking | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 spread | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 spread | aux |
| 27 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 war | acl:relcl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 Hargeisa | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Hargeisa | case |
| 30 | Hargeisa | Hargeisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 spread | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 1995 | cc |
| 32 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 1995 | amod |
| 33 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 36 1995 | mark |
| 34 | around | around | ADP | _ | 36 1995 | case |
| 35 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 1995 | nmod:unmarked |
| 36 | 1995 | 1995 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 re-erupted | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 defeat | punct |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 defeat | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 defeat | det |
| 40 | rebel | rebel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 defeat | amod |
| 41 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 re-erupted | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 re-erupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | re-erupt | past | Conflict | last 1995 April | with a rebel defeat | tree rules | |||
| 2 | attack | past | troops of the government | the airport | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent airport=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drive out | to-infinitive | troops of the government not said here | the Eidagalley militias | in October | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme militia=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | spark | gerund | Conflict not said here | a new war | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition war=Patient | ||||
| 5 | spread out | would | a new war | Hargeisa | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hargeisa=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.
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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