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title: There are two official languages in Djibouti: Arabic (Afroasiatic) a… — Djibouti City · tree and pragmatics
description: There are two official languages in Djibouti: Arabic (Afroasiatic) and French (Indo-European). Who acts: two official languages. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti City, sentence 112

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From Wikipedia, [«Djibouti City»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djibouti_City), 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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There are two official languages in Djibouti: Arabic (Afroasiatic) and French (Indo-European).

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**Who acts:** two official languages · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Djibouti City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two official languages), 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_City:112
# text = There are two official languages in Djibouti: Arabic (Afroasiatic) and French (Indo-European).
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Djibouti	Djibouti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Afroasiatic	afroasiatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Indo	Indo	X	AFX	_	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | two official languages in Djibouti |  |  | there |  | Arabic *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 City», 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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