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title: By that time, the Allied offensive against the Italians included a b… — Djibouti City · tree and pragmatics
description: By that time, the Allied offensive against the Italians included a blockade of French Somaliland. Who acts: Allied offensive. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti City, sentence 43

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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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By that time, the Allied offensive against the Italians included a blockade of French Somaliland.

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**Who acts:** Allied offensive · **What happens:** ally, include, blockade · **To what, where:** blockade, French

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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 (Allied offensive), 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:43
# text = By that time, the Allied offensive against the Italians included a blockade of French Somaliland.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Allied	ally	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	offensive	offensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Italians	Italian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	blockade	blockade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ally** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **include** | past | the Allied offensive | a blockade of French |  |  | time | the Italians *nsubj* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blockade=Theme |
| 3 | **blockade** |  |  | French |  |  |  |  | nom blockade «act transitive»: of=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 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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