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description: H. Swayne, a British soldier and explorer who traversed the Somali peninsula between the 1880-1890s wrote about Hargeisa in his journals: Who acts: British soldier, H.. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Hargeisa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Hargeisa, sentence 35

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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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H. Swayne, a British soldier and explorer who traversed the Somali peninsula between the 1880-1890s wrote about Hargeisa in his journals:

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**Who acts:** British soldier, H. · **What happens:** traverse, write · **To what, where:** Somali peninsula, journals

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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 (British soldier, H.), 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:35
# text = H. Swayne, a British soldier and explorer who traversed the Somali peninsula between the 1880-1890s wrote about Hargeisa in his journals:
1	H.	H.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
2	Swayne	Swayne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	traversed	traverse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Somali	Somali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	1880	1880	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	1890s	1890	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
19	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Hargeisa	Hargeisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	journals	journal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **traverse** | past | a British soldier and explorer | the Somali peninsula |  |  |  | between the 1880 1890s | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme peninsula=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **write** | past | H. |  |  | Hargeisa's journals |  | about Hargeisa | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about hargeisa=Topic |

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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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