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title: The Mogadishu Cathedral was built in 1928 by the colonial authoritie… — Mogadishu · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mogadishu Cathedral was built in 1928 by the colonial authorities in Italian Somaliland in a Norman Gothic style; it was severely damaged during the civil war but remains an important landmark. Who acts: colonial authorities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mogadishu» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Mogadishu, sentence 388

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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 Mogadishu Cathedral was built in 1928 by the colonial authorities in Italian Somaliland in a Norman Gothic style; it was severely damaged during the civil war but remains an important landmark.

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**Who acts:** colonial authorities · **What happens:** build, damage, remain · **To what, where:** Mogadishu Cathedral, 1928, Cathedral, important landmark

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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 (colonial authorities), 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:388
# text = The Mogadishu Cathedral was built in 1928 by the colonial authorities in Italian Somaliland in a Norman Gothic style; it was severely damaged during the civil war but remains an important landmark.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mogadishu	Mogadishu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Cathedral	Cathedral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1928	1928	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:agent	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Italian	Italian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Norman	norman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
25	during	during	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	landmark	landmark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive | the colonial authorities in Italian | the Mogadishu Cathedral |  | 1928 |  | in a Norman Gothic style | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 2 | **damage** | past · passive |  | Cathedral |  |  | during the civil war | severely *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **remain** | present |  | a important landmark |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme landmark=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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