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title: The clampdown initiated by Barre's government extended its reach bey… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: The clampdown initiated by Barre's government extended its reach beyond the initial bombings in the north to encompass various regions across the country. Who acts: clampdown. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 181

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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 clampdown initiated by Barre's government extended its reach beyond the initial bombings in the north to encompass various regions across the country.

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**Who acts:** clampdown · **What happens:** initiate, extend, encompass · **To what, where:** clampdown, reach, various regions, country

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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 (clampdown), 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:181
# text = The clampdown initiated by Barre's government extended its reach beyond the initial bombings in the north to encompass various regions across the country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clampdown	clampdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	initiated	initiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Barre	Barre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
8	extended	extend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	initial	initial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bombings	bombing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	encompass	encompass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
20	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	across	across	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **initiate** | participle |  | the clampdown *not said here* |  |  |  | Barre's government *obl:agent* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **extend** | past | the clampdown | clampdown's reach |  |  |  | beyond the initial bombings in the north | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent reach=Theme |
| 3 | **encompass** | to-infinitive | the clampdown *not said here* | various regions |  | the country |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot region=Theme |

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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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