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title: According to Article 54 of the national constitution, the allocation… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: According to Article 54 of the national constitution, the allocation of powers and resources between the Federal Government and the Federal Republic of Somalia's constituent Federal Member States shall be negotiated and agreed upon by the Federal Government and the Federal Member States, except in m
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# Somalia, sentence 359

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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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According to Article 54 of the national constitution, the allocation of powers and resources between the Federal Government and the Federal Republic of Somalia's constituent Federal Member States shall be negotiated and agreed upon by the Federal Government and the Federal Member States, except in matters pertaining to foreign affairs, national defence, citizenship and immigration, and monetary policy.

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**Who acts:** matters, Federal Member States · **What happens:** accord, negotiate, agree, pertain, policy, allocate · **To what, where:** Federal Member States, powers

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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 (matters, Federal Member States), 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:359
# text = According to Article 54 of the national constitution, the allocation of powers and resources between the Federal Government and the Federal Republic of Somalia's constituent Federal Member States shall be negotiated and agreed upon by the Federal Government and the Federal Member States, except in matters pertaining to foreign affairs, national defence, citizenship and immigration, and monetary policy.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Article	Article	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	allocation	allocation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Federal	Federal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Somalia	Somalia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	constituent	constituent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	Federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	Member	Member	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	negotiated	negotiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	parataxis	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:agent	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	Federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	Member	Member	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	64	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	except	except	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
50	pertaining	pertain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	acl	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	citizenship	citizenship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	appos	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	immigration	immigration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
63	monetary	monetary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **negotiate** | shall · passive |  | Federal Member States |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | the Federal Government and monetary policy *obl:agent* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pertain** | gerund | matters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to foreign affairs and national defence | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to affair=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **policy** |  | the Federal Member States except matters |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **allocate** |  |  | powers and resources |  |  |  | between the Federal Government and the Federal Republic of Somalia | nom allocation «possession transitive»: of=patient between=obl |

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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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