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title: For most of the war, the Somali army scored continuous victories ove… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: For most of the war, the Somali army scored continuous victories over the Ethiopian army, pursuing till Sidamo. Who acts: Somali army. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 165

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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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For most of the war, the Somali army scored continuous victories over the Ethiopian army, pursuing till Sidamo.

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**Who acts:** Somali army · **What happens:** score, pursue · **To what, where:** continuous victories, Ethiopian army

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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 (Somali army), 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:165
# text = For most of the war, the Somali army scored continuous victories over the Ethiopian army, pursuing till Sidamo.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Somali	Somali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	scored	score	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	continuous	continuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	victories	victory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	till	till	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Sidamo	Sidamo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	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 | **score** | past | the Somali army | continuous victories |  | the Ethiopian army |  | for most of the war | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent victory=Theme for most=Source |
| 2 | **pursue** | gerund | the Somali army *not said here* |  |  |  | till Sidamo |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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