Djibouti, sentence 186
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.
According to some traditions, the Wardiq were of Sheekash origin, the Hōrrōne of Ishaq origin, and the Ūrweyne were said to have descended from the Afar.
Who acts: Wardiq · What happens: accord, be, say, descend · To what, where: Ūrweyne, Afar · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wardiq), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 traditions | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 traditions | det |
| 4 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 origin | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 traditions | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wardiq | det |
| 7 | Wardiq | Wardiq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 origin | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 origin | cop |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 origin | case |
| 10 | Sheekash | Sheekash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 origin | compound |
| 11 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hōrrōne | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Hōrrōne | det |
| 14 | Hōrrōne | Hōrrōne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 origin | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 origin | case |
| 16 | Ishaq | Ishaq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 origin | compound |
| 17 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Hōrrōne | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Ūrweyne | det |
| 21 | Ūrweyne | Ūrweyne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | aux:pass |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 origin | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 descended | mark |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 descended | aux |
| 26 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 said | xcomp |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 Afar | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Afar | det |
| 29 | Afar | Afar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 descended | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 origin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the Wardiq | of Sheekash origin; accord some traditions; the Hōrrōne of Ishaq origin appos | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · passive | the Ūrweyne | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | descend | to-infinitive · perfect | the Afar | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from afar=Location |
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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