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title: However, due to logistical challenges and the deployment of warships… — Mogadishu · tree and pragmatics
description: However, due to logistical challenges and the deployment of warships by Britain, they were forced to retreat. Who acts: warships. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mogadishu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mogadishu, sentence 123

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From Wikipedia, [«Mogadishu»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadishu), 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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However, due to logistical challenges and the deployment of warships by Britain, they were forced to retreat.

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**Who acts:** warships · **What happens:** force, retreat, deploy · **To what, where:** warships

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mogadishu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warships), 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:Mogadishu:123
# text = However, due to logistical challenges and the deployment of warships by Britain, they were forced to retreat.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	logistical	logistical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	challenges	challenge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	deployment	deployment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	warships	warship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	retreat	retreat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | past · passive |  | warships *= warship* |  |  |  | due logistical challenges and the deployment of warships by Britain; however *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **retreat** | to-infinitive | warships *= warship* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **deploy** |  |  | warships by Britain |  |  |  |  | nom deployment «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, «Mogadishu», 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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