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Djibouti, sentence 136

From Wikipedia, «Djibouti», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Sabr ad-Din III and his brothers would defeat an army of 20,000 men led by an unnamed commander hoping to restore the "lost Amhara rule".

Who acts: Sabr ad, unnamed commander · What happens: defeat, lead, hope, restore, lose · To what, where: army, 20,000 men, the, Amhara rule

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Djibouti». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sabr ad, unnamed commander), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

compoundnsubjpunctapposflatccnmod:possconjauxdetobjcasenummodnmodaclcasedetamodoblaclmarkxcompobjpunctacl:relclcompoundobjpunctpunctrootSabrPROPNadNOUN-PUNCTDinPROPNIIINUMandCCONJhisPRONbrothersNOUNwouldAUXdefeatVERBanDETarmyNOUNofADP20,000NUMmenNOUNledVERBbyADPanDETunnamedADJcommanderNOUNhopingVERBtoPARTrestoreVERBtheDET"PUNCTlostVERBAmharaPROPNruleNOUN"PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SabrSabrPROPNNumber=Sing2 adcompound
2adadNOUNNumber=Sing10 defeatnsubj
3--PUNCT_4 Dinpunct
4DinDinPROPNNumber=Sing2 adappos
5IIIIIINUMNumForm=Roman NumType=Card4 Dinflat
6andandCCONJ_8 brotherscc
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 brothersnmod:poss
8brothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur2 adconj
9wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin10 defeataux
10defeatdefeatVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
11anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 armydet
12armyarmyNOUNNumber=Sing10 defeatobj
13ofofADP_15 mencase
1420,00020000NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card15 mennummod
15menmanNOUNNumber=Plur12 armynmod
16ledleadVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 menacl
17bybyADP_20 commandercase
18anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 commanderdet
19unnamedunnamedADJDegree=Pos20 commanderamod
20commandercommanderNOUNNumber=Sing16 ledobl
21hopinghopeVERBVerbForm=Ger20 commanderacl
22totoPART_23 restoremark
23restorerestoreVERBVerbForm=Inf21 hopingxcomp
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 restoreobj
25""PUNCT_26 lostpunct
26lostloseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 theacl:relcl
27AmharaAmharaPROPNNumber=Sing28 rulecompound
28ruleruleNOUNNumber=Sing26 lostobj
29""PUNCT_28 rulepunct
30..PUNCT_10 defeatpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1defeatwouldSabr ad and ad's brothersa army of 20,000 mentree rules
2leadparticiple20,000 men not said hereby a unnamed commandervn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by commander=Destination
3hopegerunda unnamed commander not said herevn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4restore not said to happento-infinitivea unnamed commander not said herethevn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent the=Theme
5lose in a quotepastAmhara rulevn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Eventuality

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Djibouti», 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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