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title: Following the tsunami of December 2004, it was alleged that Somalia'… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the tsunami of December 2004, it was alleged that Somalia's shoreline was used to dump toxic waste. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 285

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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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Following the tsunami of December 2004, it was alleged that Somalia's shoreline was used to dump toxic waste.

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**What happens:** follow, allege, use, dump · **To what, where:** tsunami, shoreline, toxic waste

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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:285
# text = Following the tsunami of December 2004, it was alleged that Somalia's shoreline was used to dump toxic waste.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	alleged	allege	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	Somalia	Somalia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	shoreline	shoreline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	dump	dump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	toxic	toxic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **allege** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | tsunami |  |  |  | follow the tsunami of December  2004 | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **use** | past · passive |  | Somalia's shoreline |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **dump** | to-infinitive |  | toxic waste |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent waste=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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