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title: In 2012, the Djibouti government also enlisted the services of the C… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2012, the Djibouti government also enlisted the services of the China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd for the construction of an ore terminal. Who acts: Djibouti government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti, sentence 409

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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 2012, the Djibouti government also enlisted the services of the China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd for the construction of an ore terminal.

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**Who acts:** Djibouti government · **What happens:** enlist, service, construct · **To what, where:** services, 2012, Company Ltd, ore terminal

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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 (Djibouti government), 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:409
# text = In 2012, the Djibouti government also enlisted the services of the China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd for the construction of an ore terminal.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Djibouti	Djibouti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	enlisted	enlist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Harbor	Harbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Engineering	Engineering	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Ltd	Ltd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	ore	ore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	terminal	terminal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enlist** | past | the Djibouti government | the services of the Company Ltd |  | 2012 |  | for the construction of a ore terminal | vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent service=Pivot in 2012=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **service** |  |  | the Company Ltd |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **construct** |  |  | a ore terminal |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=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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