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title: That goes back approximately four thousand years and is supported by… — Mogadishu · tree and pragmatics
description: That goes back approximately four thousand years and is supported by archaeological and textual evidence. Who acts: That, archaeological evidence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mogadishu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mogadishu, sentence 43

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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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That goes back approximately four thousand years and is supported by archaeological and textual evidence.

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**Who acts:** That, archaeological evidence · **What happens:** go back, support

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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 (That, archaeological evidence), 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:43
# text = That goes back approximately four thousand years and is supported by archaeological and textual evidence.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	archaeological	archaeological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	textual	textual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | present | That |  |  |  | year |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **support** | present · passive | archaeological evidence |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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