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title: The latter course was decided upon, and during the first months of 1… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter course was decided upon, and during the first months of 1945, the advance posts were withdrawn, and the British administration confined to the coast town of Berbera. Who acts: British administration. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somaliland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somaliland, sentence 125

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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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The latter course was decided upon, and during the first months of 1945, the advance posts were withdrawn, and the British administration confined to the coast town of Berbera.

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**Who acts:** British administration · **What happens:** decide, withdraw, confine · **To what, where:** latter course, advance posts, coast town

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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 (British administration), 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:125
# text = The latter course was decided upon, and during the first months of 1945, the advance posts were withdrawn, and the British administration confined to the coast town of Berbera.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	withdrawn	withdraw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Berbera	Berbera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past · passive |  | the latter course |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **withdraw** | past · passive |  | the advance posts |  |  | month |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **confine** | participle | the British administration |  |  | the coast town of Berbera |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to town=Destination |

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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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