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title: FLCS used to initiate few mounting cross-border operations into Fren… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: FLCS used to initiate few mounting cross-border operations into French Somaliland from Somalia and Ethiopia to attacks on French targets. Who acts: FLCS. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti, sentence 266

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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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FLCS used to initiate few mounting cross-border operations into French Somaliland from Somalia and Ethiopia to attacks on French targets.

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**Who acts:** FLCS · **What happens:** use, initiate, mount · **To what, where:** few, cross-border operations, French Somaliland

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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 (FLCS), 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:266
# text = FLCS used to initiate few mounting cross-border operations into French Somaliland from Somalia and Ethiopia to attacks on French targets.
1	FLCS	flc	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	initiate	initiate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	mounting	mount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
7	cross-border	cross-border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Somalia	Somalia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	targets	target	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | FLCS |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **initiate** | to-infinitive | FLCS *not said here* | few |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient |
| 3 | **mount** | gerund | FLCS *not said here* | cross-border operations |  | French Somaliland from Somalia and Ethiopia |  | to attacks on French targets | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Patient |

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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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