Djibouti, sentence 169

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.

The Oromo then invaded Adal, and Nur's army suffered a defeat at the Battle of Hazalo, though the city's walls kept it safe, albeit under severe famine conditions.

Who acts: Oromo, army, walls · What happens: invade, suffer, keep · To what, where: Adal, defeat, Battle, army

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 (Oromo, army, walls), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Oromo	det
2	Oromo	Oromo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 invaded	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 invaded	advmod
4	invaded	invade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Adal	Adal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 invaded	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 suffered	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 suffered	cc
8	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 army	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Nur	case
10	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 suffered	nsubj
11	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 invaded	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 defeat	det
13	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 suffered	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 Battle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Battle	det
16	Battle	Battle	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 defeat	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Hazalo	case
18	Hazalo	Hazalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Battle	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kept	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 kept	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 city	det
22	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walls	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 city	case
24	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kept	nsubj
25	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 suffered	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kept	obj
27	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kept	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 conditions	punct
29	albeit	albeit	ADP	_	33 conditions	case
30	under	under	ADP	_	33 conditions	case
31	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 conditions	amod
32	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 conditions	compound
33	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kept	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 invaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invade	past	the Oromo	Adal		then		tree rules
2	suffer	past	Nur's army	a defeat	the Battle of Hazalo			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer defeat=Stimulus
3	keep	past	the city's walls	army			albeit severe famine conditions; safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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Djibouti, sentence 169