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title: British Somaliland was then administered by the Foreign Office until… — Hargeisa · tree and pragmatics
description: British Somaliland was then administered by the Foreign Office until 1905 and afterwards by the Colonial Office. Who acts: Foreign Office. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Hargeisa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Hargeisa, sentence 47

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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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British Somaliland was then administered by the Foreign Office until 1905 and afterwards by the Colonial Office.

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**Who acts:** Foreign Office · **What happens:** administer · **To what, where:** British Somaliland

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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 (Foreign Office), 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:47
# text = British Somaliland was then administered by the Foreign Office until 1905 and afterwards by the Colonial Office.
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	administered	administer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Foreign	Foreign	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Office	Office	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	until	until	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1905	1905	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Colonial	Colonial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Office	Office	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **administer** | past · passive | the Foreign Office | British Somaliland |  |  | until 1905; then | by the Colonial Office | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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