Djibouti, sentence 473
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.
Djibouti's location on the eastern coast of Africa makes it a hub of regional migration, with Somalis, Yemenis, and Ethiopians traveling through the country en route to the Gulf and northern Africa.
Who acts: location, Ethiopians · What happens: make, travel · To what, where: coast, en route
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 (location, Ethiopians), 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 | Djibouti | Djibouti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 location | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Djibouti | case |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 coast | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coast | det |
| 6 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coast | amod |
| 7 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 location | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Africa | case |
| 9 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 coast | nmod |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hub | det |
| 13 | hub | hub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 migration | case |
| 15 | regional | regional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 migration | amod |
| 16 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hub | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Somalis | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Somalis | case |
| 19 | Somalis | somali | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 makes | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Yemenis | punct |
| 21 | Yemenis | Yemenis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Somalis | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ethiopians | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Ethiopians | cc |
| 24 | Ethiopians | Ethiopian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 25 | traveling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Ethiopians | acl |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 route | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 route | det |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 en | compound |
| 29 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 route | compound |
| 30 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 traveling | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Gulf | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Gulf | det |
| 33 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 route | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Africa | cc |
| 35 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Africa | amod |
| 36 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Gulf | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Djibouti's location on the eastern coast of Africa | coast | with Somalis; a hub of regional migration obj; Ethiopians xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary hub=Product | |||
| 2 | travel | gerund | Ethiopians not said here | the en route to the Gulf and northern Africa | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through route=Trajectory |
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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