Somaliland, sentence 49
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 Isaaq people traditionally claim to have descended from Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed, an Islamic scholar who purportedly traveled to Somaliland in the 12th or 13th century and married two women: one from the local Dir clan and the other from the neighbouring Harari people.
Who acts: Isaaq people, Islamic scholar · What happens: claim, descend, travel, marry, neighbour · To what, where: Sheikh Ishaaq, Somaliland, 12th, two women · 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 (Isaaq people, Islamic scholar), 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 people | det |
| 2 | Isaaq | Isaaq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 people | compound |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 claim | nsubj |
| 4 | traditionally | traditionally | ADV | _ | 5 claim | advmod |
| 5 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 descended | mark |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 descended | aux |
| 8 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 claim | ccomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Ishaaq | case |
| 10 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ishaaq | compound |
| 11 | Ishaaq | Ishaaq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 descended | obl |
| 12 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ishaaq | flat |
| 13 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ishaaq | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 scholar | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 scholar | det |
| 16 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scholar | amod |
| 17 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Ishaaq | appos |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 traveled | nsubj |
| 19 | purportedly | purportedly | ADV | _ | 20 traveled | advmod |
| 20 | traveled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 scholar | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Somaliland | case |
| 22 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 traveled | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 12th | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 12th | det |
| 25 | 12th | 12th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 20 traveled | obl |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 century | cc |
| 27 | 13th | 13th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 28 century | amod |
| 28 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 12th | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 married | cc |
| 30 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 traveled | conj |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 women | nummod |
| 32 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 married | obj |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 one | punct |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 women | appos |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 clan | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 clan | det |
| 37 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 clan | amod |
| 38 | Dir | Dir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 clan | compound |
| 39 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 one | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 other | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 other | det |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 clan | conj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 people | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 people | det |
| 45 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 people | amod |
| 46 | Harari | Harari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 people | compound |
| 47 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 other | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 claim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | present | the Isaaq people | traditionally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | descend | to-infinitive · perfect | Sheikh Ishaaq | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ishaaq=Location | |||||
| 3 | travel | past | a Islamic scholar | Somaliland | the 12th or 13th century | purportedly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to somaliland=Destination | ||
| 4 | marry | past | a Islamic scholar not said here | two women | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient | ||||
| 5 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules |
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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