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title: They used the ancient Somali maritime vessel known as the beden to t… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: They used the ancient Somali maritime vessel known as the beden to transport their cargo. Who acts: Avalites. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somaliland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somaliland, sentence 42

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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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They used the ancient Somali maritime vessel known as the beden to transport their cargo.

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**Who acts:** Avalites · **What happens:** use, know, transport · **To what, where:** ancient Somali maritime vessel, cargo

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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 (Avalites), 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:42
# text = They used the ancient Somali maritime vessel known as the beden to transport their cargo.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	Somali	somali	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	maritime	maritime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beden	beden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	transport	transport	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Avalites *= avalite* | the ancient Somali maritime vessel |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the ancient Somali maritime vessel *not said here* |  |  |  | as the beden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as beden=Attribute |
| 3 | **transport** | to-infinitive | Avalites *= avalite* *not said here* | Avalites's cargo |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cargo=Experiencer |

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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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