Somaliland, sentence 253
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 following month, Somaliland's president indicated that the territory expected to finalise a trade and partnership agreement with Israel, citing Somaliland's mineral, agricultural and energy resources and expressing interest in attracting Israeli technology and investment.
Who acts: president, territory · What happens: follow, indicate, expect, finalise, cite, express · To what, where: territory, trade, mineral, interest, Israeli technology
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 (president, territory), 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 month | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 month | amod |
| 3 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 indicated | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 indicated | punct |
| 5 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 president | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Somaliland | case |
| 7 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 indicated | nsubj |
| 8 | indicated | indicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 expected | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 territory | det |
| 11 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 indicated | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 finalise | mark |
| 14 | finalise | finalise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 expected | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 trade | det |
| 16 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 finalise | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 agreement | cc |
| 18 | partnership | partnership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 agreement | compound |
| 19 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trade | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Israel | case |
| 21 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 agreement | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 citing | punct |
| 23 | citing | cite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 finalise | advcl |
| 24 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 mineral | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Somaliland | case |
| 26 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 citing | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 agricultural | punct |
| 28 | agricultural | agricultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mineral | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 resources | cc |
| 30 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 resources | compound |
| 31 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 mineral | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 expressing | cc |
| 33 | expressing | express | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 citing | conj |
| 34 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 expressing | obj |
| 35 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 36 attracting | mark |
| 36 | attracting | attract | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 expressing | advcl |
| 37 | Israeli | Israeli | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 technology | amod |
| 38 | technology | technology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 attracting | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 investment | cc |
| 40 | investment | investment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 technology | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 indicated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | indicate | past | Somaliland's president | month | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | expect | participle · passive | the territory | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | finalise not said to happen | to-infinitive | the territory not said here | a trade and partnership agreement with Israel | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cite | gerund | the territory not said here | Somaliland's mineral and energy resources | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mineral=Theme | ||||
| 6 | express | gerund | the territory not said here | interest | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme | ||||
| 7 | attract | gerund | the territory not said here | Israeli technology and investment | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent technology=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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