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title: The first mayor of Hargeisa in 1960 was Aadan Cumar fure, who held t… — Hargeisa · tree and pragmatics
description: The first mayor of Hargeisa in 1960 was Aadan Cumar fure, who held the position from 1950 to 1959. Who acts: first mayor, Aadan fure. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Hargeisa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Hargeisa, sentence 84

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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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The first mayor of Hargeisa in 1960 was Aadan Cumar fure, who held the position from 1950 to 1959.

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**Who acts:** first mayor, Aadan fure · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** Aadan fure, position, 1950

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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 (first mayor, Aadan fure), 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:84
# text = The first mayor of Hargeisa in 1960 was Aadan Cumar fure, who held the position from 1950 to 1959.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hargeisa	Hargeisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	Aadan	Aadan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Cumar	Cumar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	fure	fure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1950	1950	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1959	1959	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the first mayor of Hargeisa in 1960 | Aadan fure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Aadan fure | the position |  | 1950 to 1959 |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=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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