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title: In response to the protests, de Gaulle ordered another referendum. — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: In response to the protests, de Gaulle ordered another referendum. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti, sentence 257

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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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In response to the protests, de Gaulle ordered another referendum.

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**What happens:** order · **To what, where:** referendum, response

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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: 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:257
# text = In response to the protests, de Gaulle ordered another referendum.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	de	de	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Gaulle	Gaulle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past |  | another referendum |  | response to the protests |  | de Gaulle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent referendum=Theme |

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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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