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title: Celebrations come in the form of religious festivities. — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: Celebrations come in the form of religious festivities. Who acts: Celebrations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somaliland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somaliland, sentence 474

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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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Celebrations come in the form of religious festivities.

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**Who acts:** Celebrations · **What happens:** come, form · **To what, where:** form, religious festivities

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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 (Celebrations), 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:474
# text = Celebrations come in the form of religious festivities.
1	Celebrations	celebration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Celebrations |  |  | the form of religious festivities |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location |
| 2 | **form** |  |  | religious festivities |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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