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title: The station was modernized with Russian assistance following indepen… — Mogadishu · tree and pragmatics
description: The station was modernized with Russian assistance following independence in 1960, and began offering home service in Somali, Amharic and Oromo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mogadishu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mogadishu, sentence 473

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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 station was modernized with Russian assistance following independence in 1960, and began offering home service in Somali, Amharic and Oromo.

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**What happens:** modernize, follow, begin, offer · **To what, where:** station, 1960, service, Somali

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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: 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:473
# text = The station was modernized with Russian assistance following independence in 1960, and began offering home service in Somali, Amharic and Oromo.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	modernized	modernize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Somali	Somali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Amharic	Amharic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Oromo	Oromo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **modernize** | past · passive |  | the station |  | 1960 |  | with assistance following independence | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with independence=Instrument |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **offer** | gerund |  | service |  | Somali and Amharic and Oromo |  | home *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent service=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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