Somaliland, sentence 28
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According to linguists, the first Afroasiatic-speaking populations arrived in the region during the ensuing Neolithic period from the family's proposed urheimat ("original homeland") in the Nile Valley, or the Near East.
Who acts: first speaking populations · What happens: accord, speak, arrive, ensue, propose · To what, where: region · 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 (first speaking populations), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 linguists | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | linguists | linguist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 arrived | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 linguists | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 populations | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 populations | amod |
| 7 | Afroasiatic | afroasiatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 speaking | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Afroasiatic | punct |
| 9 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 populations | amod |
| 10 | populations | population | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 arrived | nsubj |
| 11 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 region | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 region | det |
| 14 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arrived | obl |
| 15 | during | during | ADP | _ | 19 period | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 period | det |
| 17 | ensuing | ensue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 period | amod |
| 18 | Neolithic | Neolithic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 period | compound |
| 19 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arrived | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 urheimat | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 family | det |
| 22 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 urheimat | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 family | case |
| 24 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 urheimat | amod |
| 25 | urheimat | urheimat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 period | nmod |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 homeland | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 homeland | punct |
| 28 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 homeland | amod |
| 29 | homeland | homeland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 urheimat | appos |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 homeland | punct |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 homeland | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Valley | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Valley | det |
| 34 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Valley | compound |
| 35 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 urheimat | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 East | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 East | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 East | det |
| 39 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 40 East | case |
| 40 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Valley | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | arrive | past | the first speaking populations | the region | during the ensuing Neolithic period from the family's proposed urheimat in the Nile Valley or the East | accord linguists | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 4 | ensue | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | propose | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.
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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