Somaliland, sentence 273
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 defence forces completed their operations on 9 July 2008 after the Maakhir and Puntland militia in the area left their positions.
Who acts: defence forces, forces · What happens: complete, leave, operate · To what, where: operations, 9, positions
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 (defence forces, forces), 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 forces | det |
| 2 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forces | compound |
| 3 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 completed | nsubj |
| 4 | completed | complete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 operations | nmod:poss |
| 6 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 completed | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 9 | case |
| 8 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 completed | obl |
| 9 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 9 | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 9 | flat |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 militia | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 militia | det |
| 13 | Maakhir | Maakhir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 militia | compound |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Puntland | cc |
| 15 | Puntland | Puntland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Maakhir | conj |
| 16 | militia | militia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 area | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 area | det |
| 19 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 militia | nmod |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 completed | parataxis |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 positions | nmod:poss |
| 22 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 left | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | past | the defence forces | forces's operations | 9 July | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | leave | past | forces's positions | after the Maakhir militia in the area | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme | ||||
| 3 | operate | forces = force | nom operation «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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