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title: However, the referendum was again marred by reports of vote rigging… — Djibouti City · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the referendum was again marred by reports of vote rigging on the part of the French authorities, voters rejected independence by a 50-point margin. Who acts: reports, vote, voters. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti City, sentence 67

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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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However, the referendum was again marred by reports of vote rigging on the part of the French authorities, voters rejected independence by a 50-point margin.

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**Who acts:** reports, vote, voters · **What happens:** mar, rig, reject, report · **To what, where:** referendum, part, independence, vote

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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 (reports, vote, voters), 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:67
# text = However, the referendum was again marred by reports of vote rigging on the part of the French authorities, voters rejected independence by a 50-point margin.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	marred	mar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	rigging	rig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	voters	voter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rejected	reject	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
23	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mar** | past · passive | reports of vote | the referendum |  |  | again | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rig** | gerund | vote *not said here* |  |  | the part of the French authorities |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reject** | past | voters | independence |  |  |  | by a point margin | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
| 4 | **report** |  |  | vote |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication 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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