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title: The new and electrified Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway started operati… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: The new and electrified Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway started operation in January 2018. Who acts: new, Addis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti, sentence 426

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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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The new and electrified Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway started operation in January 2018.

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**Who acts:** new, Addis · **What happens:** electrify, start · **To what, where:** operation

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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 (new, Addis), 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:426
# text = The new and electrified Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway started operation in January 2018.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	electrified	electrify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Addis	Addis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	Ababa	Ababa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Djibouti	Djibouti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Railway	Railway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **electrify** | past | the new |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **start** | past | Addis and Djibouti Railway | operation |  |  | january |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality |

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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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