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title: In 1991, a multi-phased international conference on Somalia was held… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1991, a multi-phased international conference on Somalia was held in neighbouring Djibouti. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 198

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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 1991, a multi-phased international conference on Somalia was held in neighbouring Djibouti.

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**What happens:** multi-phas, hold, neighbour · **To what, where:** multi-phased international conference, 1991, Djibouti

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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:198
# text = In 1991, a multi-phased international conference on Somalia was held in neighbouring Djibouti.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	multi-phased	multi-phas	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	conference	conference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Somalia	Somalia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	Djibouti	Djibouti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **multi-phas** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | past · passive |  | a multi-phased international conference on Somalia |  | 1991 |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in 1991=Location |
| 3 | **neighbour** | gerund |  | Djibouti |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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