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title: Rather than suffer these reprisals, the city preferred to commit to… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: Rather than suffer these reprisals, the city preferred to commit to paying the Imam, each year at the time of the fairs, a perpetual annuity which the governor of Zeyla would be responsible for extracting. Who acts: you, perpetual annuity. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tre
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# Djibouti, sentence 202

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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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Rather than suffer these reprisals, the city preferred to commit to paying the Imam, each year at the time of the fairs, a perpetual annuity which the governor of Zeyla would be responsible for extracting.

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**Who acts:** you, perpetual annuity · **What happens:** suffer, prefer, commit, pay, be, extract · **To what, where:** reprisals, city, Imam

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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 (you, perpetual annuity), 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:202
# text = Rather than suffer these reprisals, the city preferred to commit to paying the Imam, each year at the time of the fairs, a perpetual annuity which the governor of Zeyla would be responsible for extracting.
1	Rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	3	cc	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	reprisals	reprisal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	commit	commit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Imam	Imam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fairs	fair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	annuity	annuity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Zeyla	Zeyla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	acl:relcl	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	extracting	extract	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | imperative | you *not said here* | this reprisals and the city |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reprisal=Stimulus |
| 2 | **prefer** | participle |  | the city *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **commit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pay** | gerund |  | the Imam |  |  | time; year |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imam=Asset |
| 5 | **is** | would | a perpetual annuity |  |  |  |  | the governor of Zeyla *nsubj*; responsible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **extract** | gerund | a perpetual annuity *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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