Djibouti, sentence 530
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.
Married women tend to sport head-scarves referred to as shash and often cover their upper body with a shawl known as garbasaar.
Who acts: Married women · What happens: tend, refer, cover, know · To what, where: sport head scarves, upper body, shawl
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 (Married women), 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 | Married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 women | amod |
| 2 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tend | nsubj |
| 3 | tend | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 scarves | case |
| 5 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scarves | compound |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scarves | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 head | punct |
| 8 | scarves | scarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tend | obl |
| 9 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 scarves | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 referred | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 shash | case |
| 12 | shash | shash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 referred | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cover | cc |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 cover | advmod |
| 15 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tend | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 17 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 body | amod |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cover | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 shawl | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 shawl | det |
| 21 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cover | obl |
| 22 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 shawl | acl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 garbasaar | case |
| 24 | garbasaar | garbasaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 known | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tend | present | Married women | to sport head scarves | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to scarf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | refer | participle | sport head scarves not said here | as shash | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cover | present | Married women not said here | scarves's upper body | with a shawl; often property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Destination with shawl=Theme | |||
| 4 | know | participle | a shawl not said here | as garbasaar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as garbasaar=Attribute |
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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