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title: Its coastline is more than 3,333 kilometres in length, the longest o… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: Its coastline is more than 3,333 kilometres in length, the longest of mainland Africa. Who acts: coastline. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 258

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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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Its coastline is more than 3,333 kilometres in length, the longest of mainland Africa.

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**Who acts:** coastline · **What happens:** be

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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 (coastline), 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:258
# text = Its coastline is more than 3,333 kilometres in length, the longest of mainland Africa.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	3,333	3,333	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | terrain's coastline |  |  |  |  | than 3,333 kilometres in length; more *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | terrain's coastline *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of mainland Africa | 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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