Burkina Faso, sentence 268
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.
The widespread distrust of politicians and lack of political involvement by many residents complicated this process.
Who acts: many residents · What happens: complicate, distrust, lack, involve · To what, where: process, widespread distrust, politicians, political involvement
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 (many residents), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 distrust | det |
| 2 | widespread | widespread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 distrust | amod |
| 3 | distrust | distrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 politicians | case |
| 5 | politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 distrust | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lack | cc |
| 7 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 politicians | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 involvement | case |
| 9 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 involvement | amod |
| 10 | involvement | involvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lack | nmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 residents | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 residents | amod |
| 13 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 involvement | nmod |
| 14 | complicated | complicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 residents | acl |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 process | det |
| 16 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 complicated | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 distrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complicate | participle | many residents not said here | this process | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | distrust | politicians and lack of political involvement by many residents | nom distrust «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | lack | political involvement by many residents | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | involve | many residents | nom involvement «act transitive»: by=agent |
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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