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title: The referendum turned out in favour of a continued association with… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: The referendum turned out in favour of a continued association with France, largely due to a combined yes vote by the sizeable Afar ethnic group and resident Europeans. Who acts: referendum, sizeable Afar ethnic group. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 138

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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 referendum turned out in favour of a continued association with France, largely due to a combined yes vote by the sizeable Afar ethnic group and resident Europeans.

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**Who acts:** referendum, sizeable Afar ethnic group · **What happens:** turn out, continue, combine, favour, vote · **To what, where:** due Europeans, favour, continued association

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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 (referendum, sizeable Afar ethnic group), 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:138
# text = The referendum turned out in favour of a continued association with France, largely due to a combined yes vote by the sizeable Afar ethnic group and resident Europeans.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	association	association	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
14	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
15	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	29	amod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	combined	combine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	yes	yes	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	sizeable	sizeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	Afar	Afar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	resident	resident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn out** | past | the referendum | due Europeans |  | favour of a continued association with France |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in favour=Location |
| 2 | **continue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **combine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **favour** |  |  | a continued association with France |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **vote** |  | the sizeable Afar ethnic group and resident |  |  |  |  |  | nom vote «act transitive»: by=agent |

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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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