Djibouti City, sentence 43
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.
By that time, the Allied offensive against the Italians included a blockade of French Somaliland.
Who acts: Allied offensive · What happens: ally, include, blockade · To what, where: blockade, French
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 (Allied offensive), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 included | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 offensive | det |
| 6 | Allied | ally | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 offensive | amod |
| 7 | offensive | offensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 included | nsubj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 Italians | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Italians | det |
| 10 | Italians | Italian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 included | nsubj |
| 11 | included | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blockade | det |
| 13 | blockade | blockade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 included | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 French | case |
| 15 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 blockade | nmod |
| 16 | Somaliland | Somaliland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 French | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 included | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ally | participle | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | include | past | the Allied offensive | a blockade of French | time | the Italians nsubj | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blockade=Theme | ||
| 3 | blockade | French | nom blockade «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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