Djibouti, sentence 202
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.
Rather than suffer these reprisals, the city preferred to commit to paying the Imam, each year at the time of the fairs, a perpetual annuity which the governor of Zeyla would be responsible for extracting.
Who acts: you, perpetual annuity · What happens: suffer, prefer, commit, pay, be, extract · To what, where: reprisals, city, Imam
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 (you, perpetual annuity), 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 | Rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 3 suffer | cc |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 Rather | fixed |
| 3 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 reprisals | det |
| 5 | reprisals | reprisal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 suffer | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 city | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reprisals | conj |
| 9 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 city | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 commit | mark |
| 11 | commit | commit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 preferred | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 13 paying | mark |
| 13 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 commit | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Imam | det |
| 15 | Imam | Imam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 paying | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Imam | punct |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 year | det |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 paying | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 paying | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fairs | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fairs | det |
| 24 | fairs | fair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 time | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 annuity | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 annuity | det |
| 27 | perpetual | perpetual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 annuity | compound |
| 28 | annuity | annuity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fairs | appos |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 responsible | nsubj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 governor | det |
| 31 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 responsible | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Zeyla | case |
| 33 | Zeyla | Zeyla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 governor | nmod |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 responsible | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 responsible | cop |
| 36 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 annuity | acl:relcl |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 extracting | mark |
| 38 | extracting | extract | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 responsible | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | imperative | you not said here | this reprisals and the city | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reprisal=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | prefer | participle | the city not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | commit not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | pay | gerund | the Imam | time; year | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imam=Asset | ||||
| 5 | is | would | a perpetual annuity | the governor of Zeyla nsubj; responsible property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | extract | gerund | a perpetual annuity not said here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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