Somaliland, sentence 19
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.
In 1960, when the protectorate became independent from Britain, it was called the State of Somaliland.
Who acts: protectorate · What happens: become, call · To what, where: 1960, Protectorate · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (protectorate), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1960 | case |
| 2 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 became | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1960 | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 became | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 protectorate | det |
| 6 | protectorate | protectorate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Britain | case |
| 10 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 independent | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | aux:pass |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 became | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 State | det |
| 16 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Somaliland | case |
| 18 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 State | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the protectorate | in 1960 result; independent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1960=Result | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | Protectorate | the State of Somaliland xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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