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After the RAF aircraft bombed Burao to the ground, the leaders of the rebellion acquiesced, agreeing to pay a fine for Gibb's death, but they refused to identify and apprehend the accused individuals. **Who acts:** RAF aircraft, leaders, inhabitants, Gibb · **What happens:** bomb, acquiesce, agree, pay, refuse, not identify · **To what, where:** Burao, fine, accused individuals 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 (RAF aircraft, leaders, inhabitants, Gibb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:114 # text = After the RAF aircraft bombed Burao to the ground, the leaders of the rebellion acquiesced, agreeing to pay a fine for Gibb's death, but they refused to identify and apprehend the accused individuals. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 RAF RAF PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 aircraft aircraft NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 bombed bomb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 6 Burao Burao PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 rebellion rebellion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 acquiesced acquiesce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 agreeing agree VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 Gibb Gibb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 identify identify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 apprehend apprehend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 accused accuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 37 individuals individual NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bomb** | past | the RAF aircraft | Burao | | | | to the ground | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burao=Patient | | 2 | **acquiesce** | past | the leaders of the rebellion | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | the leaders of the rebellion *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the leaders of the rebellion *not said here* | a fine | | | | for Gibb's death | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent fine=Asset for death=Theme | | 5 | **refuse** | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **not** **identify** | to-infinitive | inhabitants *= inhabitant* *not said here* | | | | | | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **apprehend** | infinitive | inhabitants *= inhabitant* *not said here* | the accused individuals | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer individual=Stimulus | | 8 | **accuse** | participle | | | | | | | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **die** | | Gibb | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Somaliland/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Somaliland/115/) - ↑ back to [Somaliland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Somaliland/)