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title: Port facilities expanded considerably and could afford to accommodat… — Djibouti City · tree and pragmatics
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# Djibouti City, sentence 60

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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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Port facilities expanded considerably and could afford to accommodate 2,000 ships per year.

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**Who acts:** Port facilities · **What happens:** expand, afford, accommodate · **To what, where:** 2,000 ships

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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 (Port facilities), 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:60
# text = Port facilities expanded considerably and could afford to accommodate 2,000 ships per year.
1	Port	port	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	facilities	facility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	expanded	expand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	considerably	considerably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	accommodate	accommodate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	per	per	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expand** | past | Port facilities |  |  |  |  | considerably *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **afford** | could | Port facilities *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **accommodate** | to-infinitive | Port facilities *not said here* | 2,000 ships |  |  | per year |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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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