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title: The following month, Somaliland's president indicated that the terri… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
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# Somaliland, sentence 253

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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 following month, Somaliland's president indicated that the territory expected to finalise a trade and partnership agreement with Israel, citing Somaliland's mineral, agricultural and energy resources and expressing interest in attracting Israeli technology and investment.

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**Who acts:** president, territory · **What happens:** follow, indicate, expect, finalise, cite, express · **To what, where:** territory, trade, mineral, interest, Israeli technology

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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 (president, territory), 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:253
# text = The following month, Somaliland's president indicated that the territory expected to finalise a trade and partnership agreement with Israel, citing Somaliland's mineral, agricultural and energy resources and expressing interest in attracting Israeli technology and investment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	indicated	indicate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	finalise	finalise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	partnership	partnership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	citing	cite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
24	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	mineral	mineral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	expressing	express	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
34	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	attracting	attract	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
37	Israeli	Israeli	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **indicate** | past | Somaliland's president |  |  |  | month |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic |
| 3 | **expect** | participle · passive |  | the territory |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **finalise** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the territory *not said here* | a trade and partnership agreement with Israel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cite** | gerund | the territory *not said here* | Somaliland's mineral and energy resources |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mineral=Theme |
| 6 | **express** | gerund | the territory *not said here* | interest |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme |
| 7 | **attract** | gerund | the territory *not said here* | Israeli technology and investment |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent technology=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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