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In August of that year, Muhammad Ra'uf Pasha arrived in Zeila with a firman from the khedive, instructing Abubakr to support a "geographic scientific voyage" to Harar which was a diplomatic facade intended to conceal military intentions from the British and maintain regional strategic balance. **Who acts:** Muhammad Ra'uf · **What happens:** arrive, instruct, support, be, intend, conceal · **To what, where:** Zeila, Abubakr, geographic scientific voyage, Harar, diplomatic facade, military intentions 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 (Muhammad Ra'uf), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Djibouti:219 # text = In August of that year, Muhammad Ra'uf Pasha arrived in Zeila with a firman from the khedive, instructing Abubakr to support a "geographic scientific voyage" to Harar which was a diplomatic facade intended to conceal military intentions from the British and maintain regional strategic balance. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 Muhammad Muhammad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Ra'uf Ra'uf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 Pasha Pasha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Zeila Zeila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 firman firman NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 khedive khedive NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 instructing instruct VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 21 Abubakr Abubakr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 support support VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 geographic geographic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 scientific scientific ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 voyage voyage NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Harar Harar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 diplomatic diplomatic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 facade facade NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ _ 37 intended intend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 conceal conceal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 intentions intention NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 obl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 maintain maintain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 47 regional regional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 strategic strategic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | Muhammad Ra'uf | | | Zeila | august | with a firman from the khedive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | gerund | Muhammad Ra'uf *not said here* | Abubakr | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent abubakr=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **support** | to-infinitive | Muhammad Ra'uf *not said here* | a geographic scientific voyage | Harar | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voyage=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | past | | a diplomatic facade | | | | which *nsubj* | tree rules | | 5 | **intend** | participle | | a diplomatic facade *not said here* | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **conceal** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | military intentions | | the British | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent intention=Patient from british=Beneficiary | | 7 | **maintain** | present | | regional strategic balance | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent balance=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 218](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Djibouti/218/) - next →: [sentence 220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Djibouti/220/) - ↑ back to [Djibouti](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Djibouti/)