Burkina Faso, sentence 154
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.
Lt. Col. Isaac Zida said that he would lead the country during its transitional period before the planned 2015 presidential election, but there were concerns over his close ties to the former president.
Who acts: Lt. Isaac, Isaac, concerns · What happens: say, lead, plan, be · To what, where: country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lt. Isaac, Isaac, concerns), 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 | Lt. | Lt. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Isaac | compound |
| 2 | Col. | Col. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lt. | flat |
| 3 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | Zida | Zida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Isaac | flat |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 lead | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lead | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 lead | aux |
| 9 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lead | obj |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 period | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 period | nmod:poss |
| 14 | transitional | transitional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 period | amod |
| 15 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lead | obl |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 election | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 election | det |
| 18 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 election | amod |
| 19 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 election | nummod |
| 20 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 election | amod |
| 21 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lead | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 were | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 were | cc |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 were | expl |
| 25 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 26 | concerns | concern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 were | nsubj |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 ties | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 ties | nmod:poss |
| 29 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ties | amod |
| 30 | ties | tie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 concerns | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 president | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 president | det |
| 33 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 president | amod |
| 34 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ties | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lt. Isaac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lead | would | Isaac | the country | during country's transitional period | the planned 2015 presidential election advcl | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||
| 3 | plan | participle | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | be | past | concerns over Isaac's close ties to the former president | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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