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title: In 1542, the Portuguese commander João de Sepúvelda led a small flee… — Mogadishu · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1542, the Portuguese commander João de Sepúvelda led a small fleet on an expedition to the Somali coast. Who acts: Portuguese commander. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mogadishu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mogadishu, sentence 85

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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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In 1542, the Portuguese commander João de Sepúvelda led a small fleet on an expedition to the Somali coast.

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**Who acts:** Portuguese commander · **What happens:** lead · **To what, where:** small fleet, 1542

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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 (Portuguese commander), 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:85
# text = In 1542, the Portuguese commander João de Sepúvelda led a small fleet on an expedition to the Somali coast.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1542	1542	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	João	João	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	Sepúvelda	Sepúvelda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Somali	Somali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the Portuguese commander | a small fleet |  | 1542 |  | on a expedition to the Somali coast | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme in 1542=Destination |

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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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