Djibouti City, sentence 67
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.
However, the referendum was again marred by reports of vote rigging on the part of the French authorities, voters rejected independence by a 50-point margin.
Who acts: reports, vote, voters · What happens: mar, rig, reject, report · To what, where: referendum, part, independence, vote
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 (reports, vote, voters), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 marred | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 referendum | det |
| 4 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marred | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 marred | aux:pass |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 marred | advmod |
| 7 | marred | mar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 reports | case |
| 9 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 marred | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 vote | case |
| 11 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reports | nmod |
| 12 | rigging | rig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 vote | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 part | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rigging | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 authorities | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 authorities | det |
| 18 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 authorities | amod |
| 19 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 part | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rejected | punct |
| 21 | voters | voter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rejected | nsubj |
| 22 | rejected | reject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 marred | parataxis |
| 23 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rejected | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 margin | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 margin | det |
| 26 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 point | nummod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 50 | punct |
| 28 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 margin | compound |
| 29 | margin | margin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rejected | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 marred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mar | past · passive | reports of vote | the referendum | again | however property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | rig | gerund | vote not said here | the part of the French authorities | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reject | past | voters | independence | by a point margin | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme | |||
| 4 | report | vote | nom report «communication 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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