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title: In 1967, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal became Prime Minister, a positio… — Mogadishu · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1967, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal became Prime Minister, a position to which he was appointed by Shermarke. Who acts: Haji Ibrahim, Shermarke. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mogadishu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mogadishu, sentence 140

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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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In 1967, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal became Prime Minister, a position to which he was appointed by Shermarke.

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**Who acts:** Haji Ibrahim, Shermarke · **What happens:** become, appoint · **To what, where:** 1967, Ibrahim

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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 (Haji Ibrahim, Shermarke), 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:140
# text = In 1967, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal became Prime Minister, a position to which he was appointed by Shermarke.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1967	1967	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Muhammad	Muhammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Haji	Haji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Egal	Egal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	10	compound	_	_
10	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Shermarke	Shermarke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Haji Ibrahim |  |  |  |  | in 1967 *result*; Prime Minister *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1967=Result |
| 2 | **appoint** | past · passive | Shermarke | Ibrahim |  |  |  | to a position | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to which=Attribute |

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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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