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title: To improve the environment for direct foreign investment, the Djibou… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: To improve the environment for direct foreign investment, the Djibouti authorities in conjunction with various non-profit organizations have launched a number of development projects aimed at highlighting the country's commercial potential. Who acts: conjunction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti»
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# Djibouti, sentence 400

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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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To improve the environment for direct foreign investment, the Djibouti authorities in conjunction with various non-profit organizations have launched a number of development projects aimed at highlighting the country's commercial potential.

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**Who acts:** conjunction · **What happens:** improve, launch, aim, highlight · **To what, where:** environment, conjunction, various non-profit organizations, development projects, commercial potential

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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 (conjunction), 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:400
# text = To improve the environment for direct foreign investment, the Djibouti authorities in conjunction with various non-profit organizations have launched a number of development projects aimed at highlighting the country's commercial potential.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	improve	improve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Djibouti	Djibouti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	conjunction	conjunction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	non-profit	non-profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	organizations	organization	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	launched	launch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	projects	project	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	highlighting	highlight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	potential	potential	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | **improve** | to-infinitive |  | the environment |  | conjunction |  | for direct foreign investment and the Djibouti authorities | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent environment=Patient |
| 2 | **launch** | present · perfect · passive | conjunction *not said here* | various non-profit organizations |  |  |  | a number of development projects *obj* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination number=Theme |
| 3 | **aim** | participle |  | development projects *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **highlight** | gerund |  | the country's commercial potential |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potential=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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