Djibouti, sentence 45
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.
Long-horned humpless cattle bones have likewise been discovered at Asa Koma, suggesting that domesticated cattle were present by around 3,500 years ago.
Who acts: Asa, that, cattle · What happens: discover, suggest, domesticate, be · To what, where: horned humpless cattle bones · 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 (Asa, that, cattle), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horned | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 3 | horned | horned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bones | amod |
| 4 | humpless | humpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bones | amod |
| 5 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bones | compound |
| 6 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 discovered | aux |
| 8 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 10 discovered | advmod |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 discovered | aux:pass |
| 10 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Asa | case |
| 12 | Asa | Asa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 discovered | obl:agent |
| 13 | Koma | Koma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Asa | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 suggesting | punct |
| 15 | suggesting | suggest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 discovered | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 domesticated | nsubj |
| 17 | domesticated | domesticate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 suggesting | ccomp |
| 18 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 present | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 present | cop |
| 20 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 domesticated | ccomp |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 22 | around | around | ADV | _ | 23 3,500 | advmod |
| 23 | 3,500 | 3500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 domesticated | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | present · perfect · passive | Asa | horned humpless cattle bones | likewise property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | gerund | Asa not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | domesticate | past | that | ago property | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | cattle | present property | tree rules |
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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