--- title: During ancient times, Mogadishu was part of the Somali city-states t… — Mogadishu · tree and pragmatics description: During ancient times, Mogadishu was part of the Somali city-states that engaged in a lucrative trade network connecting Somali merchants with Phoenicia, Ptolemic Egypt, Greece, Parthian Persia, Sabaeans, Nabataea and the Roman Empire. 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During ancient times, Mogadishu was part of the Somali city-states that engaged in a lucrative trade network connecting Somali merchants with Phoenicia, Ptolemic Egypt, Greece, Parthian Persia, Sabaeans, Nabataea and the Roman Empire. **Who acts:** Mogadishu, city states, lucrative trade network, Somali · **What happens:** be, engage, connect, merchant · **To what, where:** part, lucrative trade network 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 (Mogadishu, city states, lucrative trade network, Somali), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:32 # text = During ancient times, Mogadishu was part of the Somali city-states that engaged in a lucrative trade network connecting Somali merchants with Phoenicia, Ptolemic Egypt, Greece, Parthian Persia, Sabaeans, Nabataea and the Roman Empire. 1 During during ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 Mogadishu Mogadishu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 Somali Somali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 engaged engage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 lucrative lucrative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 network network NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 connecting connect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 Somali Somali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 merchants merchant VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Phoenicia Phoenicia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 Ptolemic Ptolemic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Greece Greece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 Parthian parthian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Sabaeans Sabaean PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Nabataea Nabataea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 Roman Roman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Mogadishu | part | | | time | of the city states Somali | tree rules | | 2 | **engage** | past | the city states Somali | | | | | in a lucrative trade network *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in network=Goal | | 3 | **connect** | gerund | a lucrative trade network *not said here* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **merchant** | present | Somali | | | | | with Phoenicia and Ptolemic Egypt and Greece and Parthian Persia and Sabaeans and Nabataea and the Roman Empire | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mogadishu/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mogadishu/33/) - ↑ back to [Mogadishu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Mogadishu/)