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title: Various Somali Muslim kingdoms were established in the area in the e… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: Various Somali Muslim kingdoms were established in the area in the early Islamic period. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somaliland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somaliland, sentence 59

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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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Various Somali Muslim kingdoms were established in the area in the early Islamic period.

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**What happens:** establish · **To what, where:** Various Somali Muslim kingdoms, area

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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: 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:59
# text = Various Somali Muslim kingdoms were established in the area in the early Islamic period.
1	Various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	Somali	Somali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | Various Somali Muslim kingdoms |  | the area |  | in the early Islamic period | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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