--- title: Somaliland, while only being formally recognised by Israel, also has… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics description: Somaliland, while only being formally recognised by Israel, also has political contacts with its neighbours, Ethiopia and Djibouti, non-UN member state Republic of China (Taiwan), as well as with South Africa, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Who acts: Israel, Somaliland. 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Somaliland, while only being formally recognised by Israel, also has political contacts with its neighbours, Ethiopia and Djibouti, non-UN member state Republic of China (Taiwan), as well as with South Africa, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. **Who acts:** Israel, Somaliland · **What happens:** recognise, have · **To what, where:** Somaliland, political contacts 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 (Israel, Somaliland), 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:226 # text = Somaliland, while only being formally recognised by Israel, also has political contacts with its neighbours, Ethiopia and Djibouti, non-UN member state Republic of China (Taiwan), as well as with South Africa, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. 1 Somaliland Somaliland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 while while SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 6 formally formally ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 recognised recognise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 11 also also ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 contacts contact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Ethiopia Ethiopia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 Djibouti Djibouti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 non-UN non-un NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 25 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Taiwan Taiwan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 38 cc _ _ 34 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 fixed _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 33 fixed _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Sweden Sweden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 United United PROPN NNP _ 45 flat _ _ 45 Kingdom Kingdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recognise** | gerund · passive | Israel | Somaliland *not said here* | | | | formally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **have** | present | Somaliland | political contacts Ethiopia and Djibouti as South Africa and Sweden | | | | with absence's neighbours; the United Kingdom *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contact=Patient | 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 225](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Somaliland/225/) - next →: [sentence 227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Somaliland/227/) - ↑ back to [Somaliland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Somaliland/)