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title: Handoga, dated to the fourth millennium BCE, has in turn yielded obs… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: Handoga, dated to the fourth millennium BCE, has in turn yielded obsidian microliths and plain ceramics used by early nomadic pastoralists with domesticated cattle. Who acts: Handoga, turn. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti, sentence 47

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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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Handoga, dated to the fourth millennium BCE, has in turn yielded obsidian microliths and plain ceramics used by early nomadic pastoralists with domesticated cattle.

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**Who acts:** Handoga, turn · **What happens:** date, have, yield, use, domesticate · **To what, where:** Handoga, obsidian microliths

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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 (Handoga, turn), 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:47
# text = Handoga, dated to the fourth millennium BCE, has in turn yielded obsidian microliths and plain ceramics used by early nomadic pastoralists with domesticated cattle.
1	Handoga	Handoga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dated	date	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	yielded	yield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	obsidian	obsidian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	microliths	microlith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ceramics	ceramic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	nomadic	nomadic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	pastoralists	pastoralist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:agent	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	domesticated	domesticate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **date** | participle |  | Handoga *not said here* |  |  |  | to the fourth millennium | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | Handoga |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **yield** | past | turn | obsidian microliths and plain ceramics |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent microlith=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | participle |  | obsidian microliths and plain ceramics *not said here* |  |  |  | early nomadic pastoralists with domesticated cattle *obl:agent* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **domesticate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «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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