Somaliland, sentence 58
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.
By the 16th to 17th century, the movements that followed seem to have established the Isaaqs on coastal Somaliland.
Who acts: movements · What happens: follow, seem, establish · To what, where: Isaaqs, coastal Somaliland
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 (movements), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 16th | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 16th | det |
| 3 | 16th | 16th | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 seem | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 century | case |
| 5 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 6 century | compound |
| 6 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 16th | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 16th | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 movements | det |
| 9 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seem | nsubj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 followed | nsubj |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 movements | acl:relcl |
| 12 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 established | mark |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 established | aux |
| 15 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 seem | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Isaaqs | det |
| 17 | Isaaqs | Isaaqs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 established | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Somaliland | case |
| 19 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Somaliland | amod |
| 20 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 established | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the movements | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | present | the movements | by the 16th to 17th century | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | establish | to-infinitive · perfect | the movements not said here | the Isaaqs | coastal Somaliland | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent isaaqs=Theme on somaliland=Source |
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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