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title: The 3.5 million EUR initiative lasted three and a half years, and sa… — Mogadishu · tree and pragmatics
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# Mogadishu, sentence 212

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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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The 3.5 million EUR initiative lasted three and a half years, and saw the establishment in Mogadishu of a sustainable waste collection system, a technical training centre, water quality testing laboratories, better access to clean drinking water, improved employment and livelihood opportunities in the low-cost fuel production sector, strengthened skills training and regulation in the construction sector, and laboratories for the testing of construction material quality.

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**Who acts:** 3.5 million · **What happens:** last, see, clean, drink, improve, strengthen · **To what, where:** laboratories, establishment, Mogadishu, drinking water, material quality

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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 (3.5 million), 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:212
# text = The 3.5 million EUR initiative lasted three and a half years, and saw the establishment in Mogadishu of a sustainable waste collection system, a technical training centre, water quality testing laboratories, better access to clean drinking water, improved employment and livelihood opportunities in the low-cost fuel production sector, strengthened skills training and regulation in the construction sector, and laboratories for the testing of construction material quality.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	3.5	3.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
4	EUR	EUR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	initiative	initiative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	compound	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Mogadishu	Mogadishu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	sustainable	sustainable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	technical	technical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	testing	testing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	laboratories	laboratory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
37	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
40	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	amod	_	_
41	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	improved	improve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	amod	_	_
44	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	livelihood	livelihood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	opportunities	opportunity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
50	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	amod	_	_
58	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	compound	_	_
59	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	regulation	regulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
64	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	_
65	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
67	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
68	laboratories	laboratory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
69	for	for	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	testing	testing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nmod	_	_
72	of	of	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
73	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	compound	_	_
74	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	compound	_	_
75	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | past | the 3.5 million | laboratories for the testing of material quality |  |  | year | EUR initiative *nsubj* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the 3.5 million *not said here* | the establishment |  | Mogadishu of a sustainable waste collection system |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer establishment=Stimulus |
| 3 | **clean** | to-infinitive | the 3.5 million *not said here* | drinking water and improved employment and livelihood opportunities in the production sector and skills training and regulation in the construction sector |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 4 | **drink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **improve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **strengthen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **test** |  |  | material quality |  |  |  |  | nom testing «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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