--- title: Conflict re-erupted when troops of the government attacked the airpo… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics description: Conflict re-erupted when troops of the government attacked the airport to drive out the Eidagalley militias in October 1994, sparking a new war that would spread out of Hargeisa and last until around April 1995, with a rebel defeat. Who acts: Conflict, troops, new war. 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Conflict re-erupted when troops of the government attacked the airport to drive out the Eidagalley militias in October 1994, sparking a new war that would spread out of Hargeisa and last until around April 1995, with a rebel defeat. **Who acts:** Conflict, troops, new war · **What happens:** re-erupt, attack, drive out, spark, spread out · **To what, where:** last 1995, airport, Eidagalley militias, new war, Hargeisa 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 (Conflict, troops, new war), 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:186 # text = Conflict re-erupted when troops of the government attacked the airport to drive out the Eidagalley militias in October 1994, sparking a new war that would spread out of Hargeisa and last until around April 1995, with a rebel defeat. 1 Conflict Conflict PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 re-erupted re-erupt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 4 troops troops NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 attacked attack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 airport airport NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Eidagalley Eidagalley PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 militias militia NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 1994 1994 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 sparking spark VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 out out ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Hargeisa Hargeisa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 33 until until SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 around around ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:unmarked _ _ 36 1995 1995 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 rebel rebel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 defeat defeat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **re-erupt** | past | Conflict | | | last 1995 April | | with a rebel defeat | tree rules | | 2 | **attack** | past | troops of the government | the airport | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent airport=Patient | | 3 | **drive out** | to-infinitive | troops of the government *not said here* | the Eidagalley militias | | | | in October | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme militia=Trajectory | | 4 | **spark** | gerund | Conflict *not said here* | a new war | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition war=Patient | | 5 | **spread out** | would | a new war | Hargeisa | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hargeisa=Theme | 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 185](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Somaliland/185/) - next →: [sentence 187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Somaliland/187/) - ↑ back to [Somaliland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Somaliland/)