Djibouti, sentence 43
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.
Pottery predating the mid-2nd millennium has been found at Asa Koma, an inland lake area on the Gobaad Plain.
Who acts: Pottery · What happens: predate, find · To what, where: mid-2nd millennium, Pottery, Asa
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 (Pottery), 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 | Pottery | pottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | predating | predate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Pottery | acl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 millennium | det |
| 4 | mid-2nd | mid-2nd | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 5 millennium | amod |
| 5 | millennium | millennium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 predating | obj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 found | aux:pass |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Asa | case |
| 10 | Asa | Asa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl |
| 11 | Koma | Koma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Asa | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 area | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 area | det |
| 14 | inland | inland | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 area | amod |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 area | compound |
| 16 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Asa | appos |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Plain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Plain | det |
| 19 | Gobaad | Gobaad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Plain | compound |
| 20 | Plain | Plain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 area | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | predate | gerund | Pottery not said here | the mid-2nd millennium | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme millennium=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | present · perfect · passive | Pottery | Asa | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at asa=Asset |
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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