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title: Married women tend to sport head-scarves referred to as shash and of… — Djibouti · tree and pragmatics
description: Married women tend to sport head-scarves referred to as shash and often cover their upper body with a shawl known as garbasaar. Who acts: Married women. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti, sentence 530

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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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Married women tend to sport head-scarves referred to as shash and often cover their upper body with a shawl known as garbasaar.

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**Who acts:** Married women · **What happens:** tend, refer, cover, know · **To what, where:** sport head scarves, upper body, shawl

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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 (Married women), 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:530
# text = Married women tend to sport head-scarves referred to as shash and often cover their upper body with a shawl known as garbasaar.
1	Married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	scarves	scarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	shash	shash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shawl	shawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	garbasaar	garbasaar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | present | Married women |  |  |  |  | to sport head scarves | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to scarf=Theme |
| 2 | **refer** | participle |  | sport head scarves *not said here* |  |  |  | as shash | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | present | Married women *not said here* | scarves's upper body |  |  |  | with a shawl; often *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Destination with shawl=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  | a shawl *not said here* |  |  |  | as garbasaar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as garbasaar=Attribute |

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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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