Djibouti City, sentence 36
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 idea was accepted and work began in 1931.
What happens: accept, work, begin · To what, where: idea, 1931
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: 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 | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 accepted | aux:pass |
| 4 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 work | cc |
| 6 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 accepted | conj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 accepted | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1931 | case |
| 9 | 1931 | 1931 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 began | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past · passive | the idea | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | work | infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | 1931 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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