Burkina Faso, sentence 314
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.
Nevertheless, the absolute number of people living in poverty remains high, exceeding 5.5 million.
Who acts: people · What happens: live, exceed · To what, where: poverty remains, 5.5 million
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 (people), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 4 | absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 number | amod |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nevertheless | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 8 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 people | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 remains | case |
| 10 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remains | compound |
| 11 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 living | obl |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 remains | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 exceeding | punct |
| 14 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 living | advcl |
| 15 | 5.5 | 5.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 million | compound |
| 16 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 exceeding | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | people not said here | poverty remains | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in remains=Location | ||||
| 2 | exceed | gerund | people not said here | 5.5 million | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot million=Theme |
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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