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title: The trusteeship gave Somalis the opportunity to gain experience in W… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: The trusteeship gave Somalis the opportunity to gain experience in Western political education and self-government. Who acts: trusteeship. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 128

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From Wikipedia, [«Somalia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia), 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 trusteeship gave Somalis the opportunity to gain experience in Western political education and self-government.

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**Who acts:** trusteeship · **What happens:** give, gain · **To what, where:** Somalis, experience

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Somalia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trusteeship), 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:Somalia:128
# text = The trusteeship gave Somalis the opportunity to gain experience in Western political education and self-government.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trusteeship	trusteeship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Somalis	somali	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the trusteeship | Somalis |  |  |  | the opportunity *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent somali=Recipient opportunity=Theme |
| 2 | **gain** | to-infinitive | the trusteeship *not said here* | experience |  |  |  | in Western political education and self government | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient experience=Extent in education=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, «Somalia», 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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