Burkina Faso, sentence 118
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.
In the 1980s, when ecological awareness was still very low, Sankara was one of the few African leaders to consider environmental protection a priority.
Who acts: ecological awareness, Sankara · What happens: be, consider · To what, where: 1980s, one, environmental protection
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: who acts (ecological awareness, Sankara), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 1980s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1980s | det |
| 3 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 11 low | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1980s | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 low | mark |
| 6 | ecological | ecological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 awareness | amod |
| 7 | awareness | awareness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 low | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 low | cop |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 low | advmod |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 low | advmod |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 13 | Sankara | Sankara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 low | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 leaders | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 leaders | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leaders | amod |
| 19 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leaders | amod |
| 20 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 consider | mark |
| 22 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 leaders | acl |
| 23 | environmental | environmental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 protection | amod |
| 24 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 consider | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 priority | det |
| 26 | priority | priority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 consider | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 low | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ecological awareness | the 1980s | still | low property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | past | Sankara | one | of the few African leaders | tree rules | |||
| 3 | consider | to-infinitive | Sankara not said here | environmental protection | a priority obj | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent protection=Theme priority=Attribute |
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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