Burkina Faso, sentence 190
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.
Yoro was a central figure in the Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (VDP) a pro-government militia that had taken a leading role in the struggle against Islamists.
Who acts: Yoro · What happens: be, take, lead · To what, where: central figure, Volunteers, pro-government militia, struggle
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 (Yoro), 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 | Yoro | Yoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 figure | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 figure | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 figure | det |
| 4 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 figure | amod |
| 5 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Volunteers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Volunteers | det |
| 8 | Volunteers | Volunteer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 figure | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Defense | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Defense | det |
| 11 | Defense | Defense | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 figure | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Homeland | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Homeland | det |
| 14 | Homeland | Homeland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Defense | nmod |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 VDP | punct |
| 16 | VDP | VDP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Homeland | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 VDP | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 militia | det |
| 19 | pro-government | pro-government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 militia | compound |
| 20 | militia | militia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Defense | appos |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 taken | aux |
| 23 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 militia | acl:relcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 role | det |
| 25 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 role | amod |
| 26 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taken | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 struggle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 struggle | det |
| 29 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taken | obl |
| 30 | against | against | ADP | _ | 31 Islamists | case |
| 31 | Islamists | Islamist | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 struggle | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 figure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Yoro | a central figure | the Volunteers | for the Defense of the Homeland | tree rules | ||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | a pro-government militia | the struggle against Islamists | a leading role obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme role=Destination | |||
| 3 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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