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title: The markets handle livestock from all over the Horn of Africa. — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: The markets handle livestock from all over the Horn of Africa. Who acts: markets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somaliland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somaliland, sentence 368

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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 markets handle livestock from all over the Horn of Africa.

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**Who acts:** markets · **What happens:** handle · **To what, where:** livestock, Horn

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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 (markets), 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:368
# text = The markets handle livestock from all over the Horn of Africa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	markets	market	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	handle	handle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	livestock	livestock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Horn	Horn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **handle** | present | the markets | livestock |  | the Horn of Africa |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent livestock=Theme |

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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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