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title: Originally intended as a staging unit, the battalion's officers resp… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: Originally intended as a staging unit, the battalion's officers responded to the Somalis' desire to fight, leading to their participation alongside the RICM in the October 1916 assault on Fort Douaumont. Who acts: officers, Somalis, goods. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tre
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# Djibouti, sentence 238

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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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Originally intended as a staging unit, the battalion's officers responded to the Somalis' desire to fight, leading to their participation alongside the RICM in the October 1916 assault on Fort Douaumont.

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**Who acts:** officers, Somalis, goods · **What happens:** intend, stage, respond, fight, lead, desire · **To what, where:** October assault

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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 (officers, Somalis, goods), 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:238
# text = Originally intended as a staging unit, the battalion's officers responded to the Somalis' desire to fight, leading to their participation alongside the RICM in the October 1916 assault on Fort Douaumont.
1	Originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	staging	stage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	battalion	battalion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Somalis	somali	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	participation	participation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	RICM	RICM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	1916	1916	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	_
32	assault	assault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Fort	Fort	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	Douaumont	Douaumont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **intend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as a staging unit; originally *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as unit=Attribute |
| 2 | **stage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | the battalion's officers |  |  |  |  | to the Somalis's desire | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to desire=Theme |
| 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the battalion's officers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lead** | gerund | the battalion's officers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to goods's participation alongside the RICM in the October assault on Fort | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to participation=Patient |
| 6 | **desire** |  | the Somalis |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **participate** |  | goods |  |  | the October assault on Fort |  | alongside the RICM | nom participation «act intransitive»: poss=agent alongside=obl in=place |

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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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