Burkina Faso, sentence 160
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.
General elections took place on 29 November 2015.
Who acts: General elections · What happens: take · To what, where: place, 29
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 (General elections), 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 | General | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 elections | amod |
| 2 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 29 | case |
| 6 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 took | obl |
| 7 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 29 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 29 | flat |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | General elections | place | 29 November | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on 29=Destination |
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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