Somaliland, sentence 249
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.
If this agreement is honoured, Ethiopia would become the second United Nations member state to recognise the breakaway nation.
Who acts: Ethiopia · What happens: honour, become, recognise · To what, where: agreement, second Nations member state, breakaway nation
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 (Ethiopia), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 honoured | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 agreement | det |
| 3 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 honoured | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 honoured | aux:pass |
| 5 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 become | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 honoured | punct |
| 7 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 become | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | aux |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 state | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 state | amod |
| 12 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 13 Nations | compound |
| 13 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 state | compound |
| 14 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 state | compound |
| 15 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 recognise | mark |
| 17 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 state | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nation | det |
| 19 | breakaway | breakaway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nation | compound |
| 20 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 recognise | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honour a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | this agreement | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | become | would | Ethiopia | the second Nations member state | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | recognise | to-infinitive | Ethiopia not said here | the breakaway nation | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nation=Stimulus |
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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