Djibouti City, sentence 193
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.
Originally a modest-sized facility, the airport grew considerably in size in the post-independence period after numerous successive renovation projects.
Who acts: sized facility · What happens: size, grow · To what, where: size
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 (sized facility), 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 | Originally | originally | ADV | _ | 6 facility | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 facility | det |
| 3 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sized | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 modest | punct |
| 5 | sized | size | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 facility | amod |
| 6 | facility | facility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 facility | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 airport | det |
| 9 | airport | airport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 10 grew | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 size | case |
| 13 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 period | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 period | det |
| 16 | post-independence | post-independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 period | compound |
| 17 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obl |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 projects | case |
| 19 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 projects | amod |
| 20 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 projects | amod |
| 21 | renovation | renovation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 projects | compound |
| 22 | projects | project | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grew | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | size | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | grow | past | a sized facility | size | after numerous successive renovation projects | in the post-independence period; the airport nsubj; considerably property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in size=Location |
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