Somaliland, sentence 85
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 first engagement between Somalis of the region and the British was in 1825 and led to hostilities, ending in the Battle of Berbera and a subsequent trade agreement between the Habr Awal and the United Kingdom.
Who acts: first engagement · What happens: be, lead, end · To what, where: 1825, Battle
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 engagement), 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 engagement | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 engagement | amod |
| 3 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 1825 | nsubj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 Somalis | case |
| 5 | Somalis | somali | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 engagement | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 region | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 region | det |
| 8 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Somalis | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 British | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 British | det |
| 11 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 region | conj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 1825 | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1825 | case |
| 14 | 1825 | 1825 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 led | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 led | cc |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 hostilities | case |
| 18 | hostilities | hostility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 led | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ending | punct |
| 20 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 led | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Battle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Battle | det |
| 23 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ending | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Berbera | case |
| 25 | Berbera | Berbera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Battle | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 agreement | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 agreement | det |
| 28 | subsequent | subsequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 agreement | amod |
| 29 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 agreement | compound |
| 30 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Battle | conj |
| 31 | between | between | ADP | _ | 34 Awal | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Awal | det |
| 33 | Habr | Habr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Awal | compound |
| 34 | Awal | Awal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 agreement | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Kingdom | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Kingdom | det |
| 37 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 38 Kingdom | flat |
| 38 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Awal | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the first engagement between Somalis of the region | 1825 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | to hostilities | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to hostility=Patient | |||||
| 3 | end | gerund | the Battle of Berbera and a subsequent trade agreement between the Habr Awal and the United Kingdom | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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