Somaliland, sentence 226
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.
Somaliland, while only being formally recognised by Israel, also has political contacts with its neighbours, Ethiopia and Djibouti, non-UN member state Republic of China (Taiwan), as well as with South Africa, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Who acts: Israel, Somaliland · What happens: recognise, have · To what, where: Somaliland, political contacts
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 (Israel, Somaliland), 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 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 recognised | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 recognised | mark |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 recognised | advmod |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 recognised | aux:pass |
| 6 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 7 recognised | advmod |
| 7 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Somaliland | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Israel | case |
| 9 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 recognised | obl:agent |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Somaliland | punct |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 has | advmod |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 contacts | amod |
| 14 | contacts | contact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 neighbours | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 contacts | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ethiopia | punct |
| 19 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 contacts | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Djibouti | cc |
| 21 | Djibouti | Djibouti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ethiopia | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 member | punct |
| 23 | non-UN | non-un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 member | compound |
| 24 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Ethiopia | appos |
| 25 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Republic | compound |
| 26 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 member | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 China | case |
| 28 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Republic | nmod |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 Taiwan | punct |
| 30 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 China | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 Taiwan | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Africa | punct |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 38 Africa | cc |
| 34 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 as | fixed |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 as | fixed |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 Africa | case |
| 37 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Africa | compound |
| 38 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ethiopia | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Sweden | punct |
| 40 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Africa | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Kingdom | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 Kingdom | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Kingdom | det |
| 44 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 45 Kingdom | flat |
| 45 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 has | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | gerund · passive | Israel | Somaliland not said here | formally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | have | present | Somaliland | political contacts Ethiopia and Djibouti as South Africa and Sweden | with absence's neighbours; the United Kingdom conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contact=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.
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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