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title: Under French administration, from 1862 until 1894, the land to the n… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: Under French administration, from 1862 until 1894, the land to the north of the Gulf of Tadjoura was called "Obock". A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti, sentence 28

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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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Under French administration, from 1862 until 1894, the land to the north of the Gulf of Tadjoura was called "Obock".

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**What happens:** call · **To what, where:** land, French administration · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:28
# text = Under French administration, from 1862 until 1894, the land to the north of the Gulf of Tadjoura was called "Obock".
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1862	1862	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
7	until	until	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1894	1894	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Tadjoura	Tadjoura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Obock	Obock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · passive |  | the land to the north of the Gulf of Tadjoura |  | French administration |  | Obock *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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