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title: The defence forces completed their operations on 9 July 2008 after t… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: The defence forces completed their operations on 9 July 2008 after the Maakhir and Puntland militia in the area left their positions. Who acts: defence forces, forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somaliland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somaliland, sentence 273

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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 defence forces completed their operations on 9 July 2008 after the Maakhir and Puntland militia in the area left their positions.

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**Who acts:** defence forces, forces · **What happens:** complete, leave, operate · **To what, where:** operations, 9, positions

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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 (defence forces, forces), 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:273
# text = The defence forces completed their operations on 9 July 2008 after the Maakhir and Puntland militia in the area left their positions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	completed	complete	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
9	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	Maakhir	Maakhir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Puntland	Puntland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	militia	militia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complete** | past | the defence forces | forces's operations |  | 9  July |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality |
| 2 | **leave** | past |  | forces's positions |  |  | after the Maakhir militia in the area |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme |
| 3 | **operate** |  | forces *= force* |  |  |  |  |  | nom operation «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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