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title: The local population grew rapidly during the latter half of the 20th… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: The local population grew rapidly during the latter half of the 20th century, increasing from about 69,589 in 1955 to around 869,099 by 2015. Who acts: local population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti, sentence 467

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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 local population grew rapidly during the latter half of the 20th century, increasing from about 69,589 in 1955 to around 869,099 by 2015.

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**Who acts:** local population · **What happens:** grow, increase · **To what, where:** 69,589

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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 (local population), 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:467
# text = The local population grew rapidly during the latter half of the 20th century, increasing from about 69,589 in 1955 to around 869,099 by 2015.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	during	during	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	69,589	69,589	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1955	1955	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	around	around	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	869,099	869,099	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the local population |  |  |  | during the latter half of the 20th century | rapidly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **increase** | gerund | the local population *not said here* |  |  | 69,589 in 1955 to 869,099 by 2015 |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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