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title: A narrow but productive continental shelf contains several demersal… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: A narrow but productive continental shelf contains several demersal fish and crustacean species. Who acts: narrow continental shelf. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 318

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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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A narrow but productive continental shelf contains several demersal fish and crustacean species.

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**Who acts:** narrow continental shelf · **What happens:** contain · **To what, where:** several demersal fish

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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 (narrow continental shelf), 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:318
# text = A narrow but productive continental shelf contains several demersal fish and crustacean species.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	productive	productive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	demersal	demersal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	crustacean	crustacean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | a narrow continental shelf | several demersal fish and crustacean species |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fish=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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