Burkina Faso, sentence 29
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 northwestern part of present-day Burkina Faso was populated by hunter-gatherers from 14,000 BC to 5,000 BC.
Who acts: hunter gatherers · What happens: populate · To what, where: Burkina, 14,000 BC
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 (hunter gatherers), 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 part | det |
| 2 | northwestern | northwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Burkina | nmod:desc |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 present | punct |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
| 8 | Burkina | Burkina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 populated | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | Faso | Faso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Burkina | flat |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 populated | aux:pass |
| 11 | populated | populate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 gatherers | case |
| 13 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gatherers | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 hunter | punct |
| 15 | gatherers | gatherer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 populated | obl:agent |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 BC | case |
| 17 | 14,000 | 14000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 BC | nummod |
| 18 | BC | BC | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 populated | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 5,000 | case |
| 20 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 populated | obl |
| 21 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 5,000 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 populated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | populate | past · passive | hunter gatherers | Burkina the northwestern part of present day | 14,000 BC | to 5,000 BC | tree rules |
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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