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title: By the 16th to 17th century, the movements that followed seem to hav… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: By the 16th to 17th century, the movements that followed seem to have established the Isaaqs on coastal Somaliland. Who acts: movements. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somaliland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somaliland, sentence 58

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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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By the 16th to 17th century, the movements that followed seem to have established the Isaaqs on coastal Somaliland.

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**Who acts:** movements · **What happens:** follow, seem, establish · **To what, where:** Isaaqs, coastal Somaliland

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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 (movements), 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:58
# text = By the 16th to 17th century, the movements that followed seem to have established the Isaaqs on coastal Somaliland.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	16th	16th	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	17th	17th	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	6	compound	_	_
6	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Isaaqs	Isaaqs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the movements |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present | the movements |  |  |  |  | by the 16th to 17th century | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **establish** | to-infinitive · perfect | the movements *not said here* | the Isaaqs |  | coastal Somaliland |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent isaaqs=Theme on somaliland=Source |

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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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