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title: This reproduction of aggressive strategies aimed at stifling dissent… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: This reproduction of aggressive strategies aimed at stifling dissent and retaining authority over the populace was a hallmark of the government's repressive actions in the South. Who acts: reproduction, aggressive strategies, government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree a
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# Somalia, sentence 182

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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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This reproduction of aggressive strategies aimed at stifling dissent and retaining authority over the populace was a hallmark of the government's repressive actions in the South.

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**Who acts:** reproduction, aggressive strategies, government · **What happens:** aim, stifle, retain, be, reproduce, act · **To what, where:** aggressive strategies, dissent, authority, populace, hallmark, South

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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 (reproduction, aggressive strategies, government), 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:182
# text = This reproduction of aggressive strategies aimed at stifling dissent and retaining authority over the populace was a hallmark of the government's repressive actions in the South.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	reproduction	reproduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	aggressive	aggressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	strategies	strategy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	stifling	stifle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	dissent	dissent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	retaining	retain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	populace	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hallmark	hallmark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	repressive	repressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aim** | participle |  | aggressive strategies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **stifle** | gerund |  | dissent |  |  |  |  | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dissent=Patient |
| 3 | **retain** | gerund |  | authority |  | the populace |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | this reproduction of aggressive strategies | a hallmark |  |  |  | of the government's repressive actions in the South | tree rules |
| 5 | **reproduce** |  | aggressive strategies |  |  |  |  |  | nom reproduction «process intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **act** |  | the government |  |  | the South |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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