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title: In the 1950s British officials attempted, to improve various adminis… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1950s British officials attempted, to improve various administrative development efforts. Who acts: British officials. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 130

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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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In the 1950s British officials attempted, to improve various administrative development efforts.

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**Who acts:** British officials · **What happens:** attempt, improve · **To what, where:** 1950s, various administrative development efforts

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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 (British officials), 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:130
# text = In the 1950s British officials attempted, to improve various administrative development efforts.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1950s	1950	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
4	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | past | British officials |  |  | the 1950s |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **improve** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | British officials *not said here* | various administrative development efforts |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent effort=Patient |

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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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