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title: To solidify its control of southern Somalia, the TFG formed an allia… — Mogadishu · tree and pragmatics
description: To solidify its control of southern Somalia, the TFG formed an alliance with the Islamic Courts Union, other members of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia, and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a, a moderate Sufi militia. Who acts: TFG. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mogadishu» with its dependency tree and 
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# Mogadishu, sentence 176

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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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To solidify its control of southern Somalia, the TFG formed an alliance with the Islamic Courts Union, other members of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia, and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a, a moderate Sufi militia.

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**Who acts:** TFG · **What happens:** solidify, form · **To what, where:** control, alliance

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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 (TFG), 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:176
# text = To solidify its control of southern Somalia, the TFG formed an alliance with the Islamic Courts Union, other members of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia, and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a, a moderate Sufi militia.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	solidify	solidify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Somalia	Somalia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	TFG	TFG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	alliance	alliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Courts	Courts	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Alliance	Alliance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Re-liberation	Re-liberation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Somalia	Somalia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Ahlu	Ahlu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
33	Sunna	Sunna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	Waljama'a	Waljama'a	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	moderate	moderate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	Sufi	sufi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	militia	militia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **solidify** | to-infinitive | the TFG *not said here* | help's control of southern Somalia |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent control=Patient |
| 2 | **form** | past | the TFG | a alliance and other members of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia |  |  |  | with the Courts Union; Ahlu  a moderate Sufi militia *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location alliance=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, «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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