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title: According to linguists, the first Afroasiatic-speaking populations a… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: According to linguists, the first Afroasiatic-speaking populations arrived in the region during the ensuing Neolithic period from the family's proposed urheimat ("original homeland") in the Nile Valley, or the Near East. Who acts: first speaking populations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somaliland» wi
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# Somaliland, sentence 28

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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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According to linguists, the first Afroasiatic-speaking populations arrived in the region during the ensuing Neolithic period from the family's proposed urheimat ("original homeland") in the Nile Valley, or the Near East.

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**Who acts:** first speaking populations · **What happens:** accord, speak, arrive, ensue, propose · **To what, where:** region · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (first speaking populations), 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:28
# text = According to linguists, the first Afroasiatic-speaking populations arrived in the region during the ensuing Neolithic period from the family's proposed urheimat ("original homeland") in the Nile Valley, or the Near East.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	linguists	linguist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
7	Afroasiatic	afroasiatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	during	during	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	ensuing	ensue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
18	Neolithic	Neolithic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	urheimat	urheimat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	homeland	homeland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | the first speaking populations |  |  | the region | during the ensuing Neolithic period from the family's proposed urheimat in the Nile Valley or the East | accord linguists | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ensue** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **propose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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