Burkina Faso, sentence 200
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.
President Kaboré, who had been detained since the military junta took power, was released on 6 April 2022.
Who acts: military junta · What happens: detain, take, release · To what, where: Kaboré, power, 6
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 (military junta), 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 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kaboré | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Kaboré | Kaboré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 released | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 detained | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 detained | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 detained | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 detained | aux:pass |
| 7 | detained | detain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Kaboré | acl:relcl |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 took | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 junta | det |
| 10 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 junta | amod |
| 11 | junta | junta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 detained | advcl |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kaboré | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 released | aux:pass |
| 16 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 6 | case |
| 18 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 released | obl |
| 19 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 6 | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 6 | flat |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 released | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | detain | past · perfect · passive | Kaboré President | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the military junta | power | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | ||||
| 3 | release | past · passive | Kaboré President | 6 April | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source |
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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