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title: The Isaaq Sultanate had 5 rulers before the creation of British Soma… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Isaaq Sultanate had 5 rulers before the creation of British Somaliland in 1884. Who acts: Isaaq Sultanate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somaliland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somaliland, sentence 82

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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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The Isaaq Sultanate had 5 rulers before the creation of British Somaliland in 1884.

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**Who acts:** Isaaq Sultanate · **What happens:** have, create · **To what, where:** 5 rulers, 1884, British 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 (Isaaq Sultanate), 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:82
# text = The Isaaq Sultanate had 5 rulers before the creation of British Somaliland in 1884.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Isaaq	Isaaq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Sultanate	Sultanate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1884	1884	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Isaaq Sultanate | 5 rulers |  | 1884 | before the creation of British Somaliland |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruler=Patient |
| 2 | **create** |  |  | British Somaliland |  |  |  |  | nom creation «act 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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