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title: A population estimate was conducted by UNFPA in 2014 primarily for t… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: A population estimate was conducted by UNFPA in 2014 primarily for the purpose of distributing United Nations funding among the regions and to offer a reliable population estimate in lieu of a census. Who acts: UNFPA, purpose. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somaliland» with its dependency tree and pragm
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# Somaliland, sentence 409

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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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A population estimate was conducted by UNFPA in 2014 primarily for the purpose of distributing United Nations funding among the regions and to offer a reliable population estimate in lieu of a census.

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**Who acts:** UNFPA, purpose · **What happens:** conduct, distribute, offer · **To what, where:** population estimate, 2014, Nations funding, reliable population estimate, lieu

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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 (UNFPA, purpose), 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:409
# text = A population estimate was conducted by UNFPA in 2014 primarily for the purpose of distributing United Nations funding among the regions and to offer a reliable population estimate in lieu of a census.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	estimate	estimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	UNFPA	UNFPA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
10	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	distributing	distribute	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	17	compound	_	_
17	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	funding	funding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	reliable	reliable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	estimate	estimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	lieu	lieu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | past · passive | UNFPA | a population estimate |  | 2014 |  | for the purpose; primarily *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 2014=Destination |
| 2 | **distribute** | gerund | the purpose *not said here* | Nations funding |  |  |  | among the regions | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent funding=Theme among region=Recipient |
| 3 | **offer** | to-infinitive | UNFPA *not said here* | a reliable population estimate |  | lieu of a census |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent estimate=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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