--- title: From 1971 onward, a massive tree-planting campaign on a nationwide s… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics description: From 1971 onward, a massive tree-planting campaign on a nationwide scale was introduced by the communist government to halt the advance of wind-driven sand dunes, which threatened to engulf towns, roads and farm land. Who acts: communist government, driven sand dunes. 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From 1971 onward, a massive tree-planting campaign on a nationwide scale was introduced by the communist government to halt the advance of wind-driven sand dunes, which threatened to engulf towns, roads and farm land. **Who acts:** communist government, driven sand dunes · **What happens:** introduce, halt, drive, threaten, engulf, advance · **To what, where:** massive planting campaign, 1971, advance, towns 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 (communist government, driven sand dunes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:281 # text = From 1971 onward, a massive tree-planting campaign on a nationwide scale was introduced by the communist government to halt the advance of wind-driven sand dunes, which threatened to engulf towns, roads and farm land. 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1971 1971 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 3 onward onward ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 6 massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 planting planting NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 campaign campaign NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 nationwide nationwide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 scale scale NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 introduced introduce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 communist communist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:agent _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 halt halt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 driven drive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 29 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 dunes dune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 threatened threaten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 engulf engulf VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 farm farm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **introduce** | past · passive | the communist government | a massive planting campaign on a nationwide scale | | 1971 | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 2 | **halt** | to-infinitive | the communist government *not said here* | the advance of driven sand dunes | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector advance=Eventuality | | 3 | **drive** | participle | | | | | | wind *compound* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **threaten** | past | driven sand dunes | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **engulf** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | driven sand dunes *not said here* | towns and roads and farm land | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Co-Theme | | 6 | **advance** | | driven sand dunes | | | | | | nom advance «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 280](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Somalia/280/) - next →: [sentence 282](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Somalia/282/) - ↑ back to [Somalia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Somalia/)