Burkina Faso, sentence 104
From Wikipedia, «Burkina Faso», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Thomas Sankara, was appointed prime minister in January 1983, but was subsequently arrested.
What happens: appoint, arrest · To what, where: Thomas
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Burkina Faso». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appointed | nsubj |
| 2 | Sankara | Sankara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Thomas | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thomas | punct |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appointed | aux:pass |
| 5 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 minister | amod |
| 7 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appointed | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 January | case |
| 9 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appointed | obl |
| 10 | 1983 | 1983 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 January | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 arrested | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 arrested | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 arrested | aux:pass |
| 14 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 15 arrested | advmod |
| 15 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 appointed | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | Thomas | january | prime minister obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme minister=Attribute | |||
| 2 | arrest | past · passive | subsequently property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» |
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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