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title: This effort led in 1989 to a decision by the Somali government to ad… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: This effort led in 1989 to a decision by the Somali government to adhere to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which banned the trade of elephant ivory. Who acts: Wild Fauna. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Somalia, sentence 284

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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 effort led in 1989 to a decision by the Somali government to adhere to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which banned the trade of elephant ivory.

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**Who acts:** Wild Fauna · **What happens:** lead, adhere, ban, trade · **To what, where:** effort, Convention, International, trade, elephant ivory

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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 (Wild Fauna), 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:284
# text = This effort led in 1989 to a decision by the Somali government to adhere to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which banned the trade of elephant ivory.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Somali	somali	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	adhere	adhere	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Convention	Convention	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	International	International	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	Trade	Trade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Endangered	endangered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Fauna	Fauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Flora	Flora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	banned	ban	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | participle |  | this effort *not said here* |  |  |  | in 1989 to a decision; the Somali government *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition in 1989=Patient |
| 2 | **adhere** | to-infinitive |  | the Convention |  | International |  | in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora | tree rules |
| 3 | **ban** | past | Wild Fauna and Flora | the trade of elephant ivory |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trade=Theme |
| 5 | **trade** |  |  | elephant ivory |  |  |  |  | nom trade «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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