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title: Sabr ad-Din III and his brothers would defeat an army of 20,000 men… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: Sabr ad-Din III and his brothers would defeat an army of 20,000 men led by an unnamed commander hoping to restore the "lost Amhara rule". Who acts: Sabr ad, unnamed commander. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti, sentence 136

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From Wikipedia, [«Djibouti»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djibouti), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Sabr ad-Din III and his brothers would defeat an army of 20,000 men led by an unnamed commander hoping to restore the "lost Amhara rule".

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**Who acts:** Sabr ad, unnamed commander · **What happens:** defeat, lead, hope, restore, lose · **To what, where:** army, 20,000 men, the, Amhara rule

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Djibouti». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sabr ad, unnamed commander), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Djibouti:136
# text = Sabr ad-Din III and his brothers would defeat an army of 20,000 men led by an unnamed commander hoping to restore the "lost Amhara rule".
1	Sabr	Sabr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ad	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Din	Din	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	defeat	defeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	unnamed	unnamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	obj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	Amhara	Amhara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defeat** | would | Sabr ad and ad's brothers | a army of 20,000 men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | 20,000 men *not said here* |  |  |  | by a unnamed commander | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by commander=Destination |
| 3 | **hope** | gerund | a unnamed commander *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **restore** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a unnamed commander *not said here* | the |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent the=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** *in a quote* | past |  | Amhara rule |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Eventuality |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Djibouti», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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