Djibouti, sentence 219
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.
In August of that year, Muhammad Ra'uf Pasha arrived in Zeila with a firman from the khedive, instructing Abubakr to support a "geographic scientific voyage" to Harar which was a diplomatic facade intended to conceal military intentions from the British and maintain regional strategic balance.
Who acts: Muhammad Ra'uf · What happens: arrive, instruct, support, be, intend, conceal · To what, where: Zeila, Abubakr, geographic scientific voyage, Harar, diplomatic facade, military intentions
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 (Muhammad Ra'uf), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 August | case |
| 2 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 year | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 August | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 August | punct |
| 7 | Muhammad | Muhammad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ra'uf | compound |
| 8 | Ra'uf | Ra'uf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | nsubj |
| 9 | Pasha | Pasha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ra'uf | flat |
| 10 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Zeila | case |
| 12 | Zeila | Zeila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 firman | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 firman | det |
| 15 | firman | firman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 khedive | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 khedive | det |
| 18 | khedive | khedive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 firman | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 instructing | punct |
| 20 | instructing | instruct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 arrived | advcl |
| 21 | Abubakr | Abubakr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 instructing | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 support | mark |
| 23 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 instructing | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 voyage | det |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 voyage | punct |
| 26 | geographic | geographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 voyage | amod |
| 27 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 voyage | amod |
| 28 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 support | obj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 voyage | punct |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Harar | case |
| 31 | Harar | Harar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 support | obl |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 facade | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 facade | cop |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 facade | det |
| 35 | diplomatic | diplomatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 facade | amod |
| 36 | facade | facade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 support | parataxis |
| 37 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 facade | acl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 conceal | mark |
| 39 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 intended | xcomp |
| 40 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 intentions | amod |
| 41 | intentions | intention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 conceal | obj |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 British | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 British | det |
| 44 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 conceal | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 maintain | cc |
| 46 | maintain | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 conceal | conj |
| 47 | regional | regional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 balance | amod |
| 48 | strategic | strategic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 balance | amod |
| 49 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 maintain | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Muhammad Ra'uf | Zeila | august | with a firman from the khedive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | gerund | Muhammad Ra'uf not said here | Abubakr | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent abubakr=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | support | to-infinitive | Muhammad Ra'uf not said here | a geographic scientific voyage | Harar | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voyage=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is a | past | a diplomatic facade | which nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | intend | participle | a diplomatic facade not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | conceal not said to happen | to-infinitive | military intentions | the British | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent intention=Patient from british=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | maintain | present | regional strategic balance | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent balance=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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