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title: 'Xalwo', which is closely associated with Omani 'Halwa', is a smooth… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Xalwo', which is closely associated with Omani 'Halwa', is a smooth jelly-like treat that is made with spices, seeds, nuts, and caramelised sugar. Who acts: Xalwo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 615

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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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'Xalwo', which is closely associated with Omani 'Halwa', is a smooth jelly-like treat that is made with spices, seeds, nuts, and caramelised sugar.

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**Who acts:** Xalwo · **What happens:** associate, be, make, caramelise · **To what, where:** Xalwo, smooth like treat, sugar

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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 (Xalwo), 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:615
# text = 'Xalwo', which is closely associated with Omani 'Halwa', is a smooth jelly-like treat that is made with spices, seeds, nuts, and caramelised sugar.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Xalwo	Xalwo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Omani	Omani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Halwa	Halwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	caramelised	caramelise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
32	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **associate** | present · passive |  | Xalwo |  |  |  | with Omani's Halwa; closely *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with halwa=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Xalwo | a smooth like treat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive |  | a smooth like treat |  |  |  | with spices and seeds and nuts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **caramelise** | past | Xalwo *not said here* | sugar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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