Djibouti City, sentence 173
From Wikipedia, «Djibouti City», 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 financial sector of the Republic of Djibouti has grown dramatically in recent years, a process that began in the early 2000s, and that was in large part prompted by an explosion the number of exchange agencies and remittances throughout the country.
Who acts: process, that · What happens: grow, begin, be, prompt · To what, where: financial sector, early 2000s, large part
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Djibouti City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (process, that), 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 sector | det |
| 2 | financial | financial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sector | amod |
| 3 | sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Republic | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Republic | det |
| 6 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sector | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Djibouti | case |
| 8 | Djibouti | Djibouti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Republic | nmod |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 grown | aux |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | dramatically | dramatically | ADV | _ | 10 grown | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 13 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 years | amod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grown | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 process | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 process | det |
| 17 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 years | appos |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 process | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 2000s | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 2000s | det |
| 22 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 2000s | amod |
| 23 | 2000s | 2000 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 19 began | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 part | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 part | cc |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 part | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 part | cop |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 part | case |
| 29 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 part | amod |
| 30 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grown | parataxis |
| 31 | prompted | prompt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 part | acl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 explosion | case |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 explosion | det |
| 34 | explosion | explosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 prompted | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 number | det |
| 36 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 explosion | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 agencies | case |
| 38 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 agencies | compound |
| 39 | agencies | agency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 number | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 remittances | cc |
| 41 | remittances | remittance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 agencies | conj |
| 42 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 44 country | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 country | det |
| 44 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 agencies | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present · perfect · passive | the financial sector of the Republic of Djibouti | year | dramatically property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | a process | the early 2000s | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | large part | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prompt | participle | large part not said here | by a explosion and the number of exchange agencies throughout the country and remittances | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Djibouti City», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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