Burkina Faso, sentence 238
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 rainy season, the country receives between 600 and 900 mm of rainfall; in the dry season, the harmattan – a hot dry wind from the Sahara – blows.
Who acts: country · What happens: receive · To what, where: 600
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 (country), 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 | _ | 4 season | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 season | det |
| 3 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 season | amod |
| 4 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 receives | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 season | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 receives | nsubj |
| 8 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 600 | case |
| 10 | 600 | 600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 receives | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mm | cc |
| 12 | 900 | 900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 mm | nummod |
| 13 | mm | mm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 600 | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 rainfall | case |
| 15 | rainfall | rainfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mm | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 season | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 season | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 season | det |
| 19 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 season | amod |
| 20 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 receives | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 harmattan | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 harmattan | det |
| 23 | harmattan | harmattan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 season | conj |
| 24 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 wind | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 wind | det |
| 26 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 wind | amod |
| 27 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 wind | amod |
| 28 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 receives | advcl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Sahara | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Sahara | det |
| 31 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 wind | nmod |
| 32 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 blows | punct |
| 33 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 wind | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 receives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | present | the country | 600 and 900 mm of rainfall | season | a hot dry wind from the Sahara and blows advcl | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent between 600=Location |
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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