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title: Djibouti's location on the eastern coast of Africa makes it a hub of… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: Djibouti's location on the eastern coast of Africa makes it a hub of regional migration, with Somalis, Yemenis, and Ethiopians traveling through the country en route to the Gulf and northern Africa. Who acts: location, Ethiopians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Djibouti, sentence 473

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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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Djibouti's location on the eastern coast of Africa makes it a hub of regional migration, with Somalis, Yemenis, and Ethiopians traveling through the country en route to the Gulf and northern Africa.

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**Who acts:** location, Ethiopians · **What happens:** make, travel · **To what, where:** coast, en route

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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 (location, Ethiopians), 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:473
# text = Djibouti's location on the eastern coast of Africa makes it a hub of regional migration, with Somalis, Yemenis, and Ethiopians traveling through the country en route to the Gulf and northern Africa.
1	Djibouti	Djibouti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Somalis	somali	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Yemenis	Yemenis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Ethiopians	Ethiopian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	xcomp	_	_
25	traveling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **make** | present | Djibouti's location on the eastern coast of Africa | coast |  |  |  | with Somalis; a hub of regional migration *obj*; Ethiopians *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary hub=Product |
| 2 | **travel** | gerund | Ethiopians *not said here* |  |  | the en route to the Gulf and northern Africa |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through route=Trajectory |

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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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