Djibouti City, sentence 60
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.
Port facilities expanded considerably and could afford to accommodate 2,000 ships per year.
Who acts: Port facilities · What happens: expand, afford, accommodate · To what, where: 2,000 ships
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 (Port facilities), 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 | Port | port | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 facilities | amod |
| 2 | facilities | facility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 expanded | nsubj |
| 3 | expanded | expand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 3 expanded | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 afford | cc |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 afford | aux |
| 7 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 expanded | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 accommodate | mark |
| 9 | accommodate | accommodate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 afford | xcomp |
| 10 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 ships | nummod |
| 11 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 accommodate | obj |
| 12 | per | per | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ships | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 expanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expand | past | Port facilities | considerably property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | afford | could | Port facilities not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | accommodate | to-infinitive | Port facilities not said here | 2,000 ships | per year | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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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