Somaliland, sentence 409
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.
A population estimate was conducted by UNFPA in 2014 primarily for the purpose of distributing United Nations funding among the regions and to offer a reliable population estimate in lieu of a census.
Who acts: UNFPA, purpose · What happens: conduct, distribute, offer · To what, where: population estimate, 2014, Nations funding, reliable population estimate, lieu
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 (UNFPA, purpose), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 estimate | det |
| 2 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 estimate | compound |
| 3 | estimate | estimate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 conducted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 conducted | aux:pass |
| 5 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 UNFPA | case |
| 7 | UNFPA | UNFPA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 conducted | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 2014 | case |
| 9 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 conducted | obl |
| 10 | primarily | primarily | ADV | _ | 5 conducted | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 purpose | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 purpose | det |
| 13 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 conducted | obl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 distributing | mark |
| 15 | distributing | distribute | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 purpose | acl |
| 16 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 17 Nations | compound |
| 17 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 funding | compound |
| 18 | funding | funding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 distributing | obj |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 regions | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 regions | det |
| 21 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 distributing | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 offer | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 offer | mark |
| 24 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 conducted | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 estimate | det |
| 26 | reliable | reliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 estimate | amod |
| 27 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 estimate | compound |
| 28 | estimate | estimate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 offer | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 lieu | case |
| 30 | lieu | lieu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 offer | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 census | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 census | det |
| 33 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lieu | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past · passive | UNFPA | a population estimate | 2014 | for the purpose; primarily property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 2014=Destination | ||
| 2 | distribute | gerund | the purpose not said here | Nations funding | among the regions | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent funding=Theme among region=Recipient | |||
| 3 | offer | to-infinitive | UNFPA not said here | a reliable population estimate | lieu of a census | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent estimate=Theme |
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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