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title: In 1960, the Somaliland Protectorate gained independence from the Un… — Hargeisa · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1960, the Somaliland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom and as scheduled united days later with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic on 1 July. Who acts: Somaliland Protectorate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Hargeisa» with i
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# Hargeisa, sentence 6

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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 1960, the Somaliland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom and as scheduled united days later with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic on 1 July.

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**Who acts:** Somaliland Protectorate · **What happens:** gain, schedule, form · **To what, where:** independence, Somali Republic

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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 (Somaliland Protectorate), 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:6
# text = In 1960, the Somaliland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom and as scheduled united days later with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic on 1 July.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Protectorate	Protectorate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	12	flat	_	_
12	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	scheduled	schedule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	united	united	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Trust	Trust	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Territory	Territory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Italian	Italian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Somali	Somali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | the Somaliland Protectorate | independence |  |  |  | from the United Kingdom; in 1960 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient independence=Extent in 1960=Attribute from kingdom=Initial\_State |
| 2 | **schedule** | participle | the Somaliland Protectorate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Trust Territory of Somaliland; late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** | to-infinitive | the Somaliland Protectorate *not said here* | the Somali Republic |  |  | july |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location republic=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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