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# Hargeisa, sentence 21

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From Wikipedia, [«Hargeisa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hargeisa), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In November 2003, a mission returned to Laas Geel and a team of experts undertook a detailed study of the paintings and their prehistoric context.

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**Who acts:** mission · **What happens:** return, undertake, study · **To what, where:** mission, detailed study, paintings

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Hargeisa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mission), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Hargeisa:21
# text = In November 2003, a mission returned to Laas Geel and a team of experts undertook a detailed study of the paintings and their prehistoric context.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
3	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Laas	Laas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
10	Geel	Geel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	experts	expert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	undertook	undertake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	detailed	detailed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	prehistoric	prehistoric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	context	context	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | participle |  | a mission and a team of experts *not said here* |  |  |  | Laas *obl:agent* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **undertake** | past | a mission and a team of experts | a detailed study of the paintings and mission's prehistoric context |  |  | november |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Eventuality |
| 3 | **study** |  |  | the paintings and mission's prehistoric context |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Hargeisa», 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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