Djibouti, sentence 467
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.
The local population grew rapidly during the latter half of the 20th century, increasing from about 69,589 in 1955 to around 869,099 by 2015.
Who acts: local population · What happens: grow, increase · To what, where: 69,589
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 (local population), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 population | det |
| 2 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 population | amod |
| 3 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 4 grew | advmod |
| 6 | during | during | ADP | _ | 9 half | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 half | det |
| 8 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 half | amod |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 grew | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 century | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 century | det |
| 12 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 13 century | amod |
| 13 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 half | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 increasing | punct |
| 15 | increasing | increase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 grew | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 69,589 | case |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 69,589 | advmod |
| 18 | 69,589 | 69,589 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 increasing | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1955 | case |
| 20 | 1955 | 1955 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 69,589 | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 869,099 | case |
| 22 | around | around | ADV | _ | 23 869,099 | advmod |
| 23 | 869,099 | 869,099 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 69,589 | nmod |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 2015 | case |
| 25 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 69,589 | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the local population | during the latter half of the 20th century | rapidly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | increase | gerund | the local population not said here | 69,589 in 1955 to 869,099 by 2015 | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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