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title: They revolted in opposition to a new tax that was imposed upon them,… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: They revolted in opposition to a new tax that was imposed upon them, rioting and attacking British government officials. Who acts: people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somaliland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somaliland, sentence 103

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From Wikipedia, [«Somaliland»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaliland), 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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They revolted in opposition to a new tax that was imposed upon them, rioting and attacking British government officials.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** revolt, impose, riot, attack · **To what, where:** opposition, new tax, British government officials

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Somaliland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:Somaliland:103
# text = They revolted in opposition to a new tax that was imposed upon them, rioting and attacking British government officials.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	revolted	revolt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	imposed	impose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	rioting	riot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	attacking	attack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revolt** | past | people |  |  | opposition |  | to a new tax | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **impose** | past · passive |  | a new tax |  |  |  | upon people | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **riot** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **attack** | gerund | people *not said here* | British government officials |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent official=Patient |

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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, «Somaliland», 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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