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title: Civil strife in the early 1990s greatly increased the size of the So… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: Civil strife in the early 1990s greatly increased the size of the Somali diaspora, as many of the best educated Somalis left. Who acts: Civil strife. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 503

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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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Civil strife in the early 1990s greatly increased the size of the Somali diaspora, as many of the best educated Somalis left.

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**Who acts:** Civil strife · **What happens:** increase, educate, leave · **To what, where:** size, best educated Somalis

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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 (Civil strife), 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:503
# text = Civil strife in the early 1990s greatly increased the size of the Somali diaspora, as many of the best educated Somalis left.
1	Civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
7	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Somali	somali	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	diaspora	diaspora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
21	educated	educate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	Somalis	somali	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | past | Civil strife in the early 1990s | the size of the Somali diaspora |  |  |  | as many of the best educated Somalis; greatly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer size=Patient |
| 2 | **educate** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  | the best educated Somalis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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