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title: In the south, armed factions led by USC commanders General Mohamed F… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: In the south, armed factions led by USC commanders General Mohamed Farah Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohamed, in particular, clashed as each sought to exert authority over the capital. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 197

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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 south, armed factions led by USC commanders General Mohamed Farah Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohamed, in particular, clashed as each sought to exert authority over the capital.

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**What happens:** lead, clash, seek, exert · **To what, where:** armed factions, each, authority, capital, 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: 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:197
# text = In the south, armed factions led by USC commanders General Mohamed Farah Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohamed, in particular, clashed as each sought to exert authority over the capital.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	factions	faction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	USC	usc	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	commanders	commander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Mohamed	Mohamed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	Farah	Farah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	Aidid	Aidid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Mahdi	Mahdi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	Mohamed	Mohamed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	clashed	clash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	exert	exert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | participle |  | armed factions *not said here* |  |  |  | by USC commanders | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by commander=Destination |
| 2 | **clash** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seek** | participle · passive |  | each |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **exert** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | authority |  | the capital |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=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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