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title: The Gibil Madow (Dark Skins) faction of the Benadiri are said to hai… — Mogadishu · tree and pragmatics
description: The Gibil Madow (Dark Skins) faction of the Benadiri are said to hail from the Somali clan groups from inland which make up the majority of Benadiris with a small minority being Gibil Cads (Light Skins) which descend from Muslim immigrants. Who acts: Somali clan groups, Gibil Cads. A sentence of Wik
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# Mogadishu, sentence 55

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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 Gibil Madow (Dark Skins) faction of the Benadiri are said to hail from the Somali clan groups from inland which make up the majority of Benadiris with a small minority being Gibil Cads (Light Skins) which descend from Muslim immigrants.

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**Who acts:** Somali clan groups, Gibil Cads · **What happens:** say, hail, make up, be, descend · **To what, where:** Gibil Madow, Somali clan groups, majority, Gibil Cads, Muslim immigrants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Somali clan groups, Gibil Cads), 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:55
# text = The Gibil Madow (Dark Skins) faction of the Benadiri are said to hail from the Somali clan groups from inland which make up the majority of Benadiris with a small minority being Gibil Cads (Light Skins) which descend from Muslim immigrants.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Gibil	Gibil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Madow	Madow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Skins	Skin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	faction	faction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Benadiri	Benadiri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hail	hail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Somali	somali	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	20	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Benadiris	Benadiris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
34	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
35	Gibil	Gibil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Cads	cad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	descend	descend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the Gibil Madow  Dark Skins |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hail** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the Somali clan groups |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **make up** | present | the Somali clan groups | the majority of Benadiris |  |  |  | with a small minority and Gibil Cads | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme majority=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** | gerund | the Somali clan groups *not said here* | Gibil Cads |  |  |  | Light Skins *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **descend** | present | Gibil Cads |  |  | Muslim immigrants |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from immigrant=Location |

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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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