Burkina Faso, sentence 313
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.
Despite this, the strong growth in the agriculture and services sectors in 2024 reduced the extreme poverty rate by 3 points to 23.2%, with a sharper decline in rural areas.
Who acts: growth sectors · What happens: reduce · To what, where: extreme poverty rate
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 (growth sectors), 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 reduced | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sectors | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 growth | det |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 growth | amod |
| 6 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sectors | compound |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 agriculture | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 agriculture | det |
| 9 | agriculture | agriculture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 growth | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 services | cc |
| 11 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 agriculture | conj |
| 12 | sectors | sector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reduced | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 2024 | case |
| 14 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 sectors | nmod |
| 15 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rate | det |
| 17 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rate | amod |
| 18 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rate | compound |
| 19 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reduced | obj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 points | case |
| 21 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 points | nummod |
| 22 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reduced | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 % | case |
| 24 | 23.2 | 23.2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 % | nummod |
| 25 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 15 reduced | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 decline | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 decline | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 decline | det |
| 29 | sharper | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 decline | amod |
| 30 | decline | decline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reduced | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 areas | case |
| 32 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 areas | amod |
| 33 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 decline | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 reduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reduce | past | growth sectors in 2024 | the extreme poverty rate | despite this; by 3 points; a sharper decline in rural areas parataxis | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Causer rate=Patient by point=Extent to %=Result |
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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