Burkina Faso, sentence 362
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.
There were 48 researchers (in full-time equivalents) per million inhabitants in 2010, which is more than twice the average for sub-Saharan Africa (20 per million population in 2013) and higher than the ratio for Ghana and Nigeria (39).
Who acts: 48 researchers, time equivalents · What happens: be
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 (48 researchers, time equivalents), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 researchers | nummod |
| 4 | researchers | researcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 equivalents | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 equivalents | case |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 equivalents | compound |
| 10 | equivalents | equivalent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 researchers | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 equivalents | punct |
| 12 | per | per | ADP | _ | 14 inhabitants | case |
| 13 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 inhabitants | nummod |
| 14 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 equivalents | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 2010 | case |
| 16 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 inhabitants | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 more | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 more | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 more | cop |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 equivalents | conj |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 average | case |
| 22 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 average | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 average | det |
| 24 | average | average | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 more | obl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 Africa | case |
| 26 | sub-Saharan | sub-Saharan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Africa | compound |
| 27 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 average | nmod |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 population | punct |
| 29 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 population | nummod |
| 30 | per | per | ADP | _ | 31 million | case |
| 31 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 20 | nmod |
| 32 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 average | appos |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 2013 | case |
| 34 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 population | nmod |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 population | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 higher | cc |
| 37 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 more | conj |
| 38 | than | than | ADP | _ | 40 ratio | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ratio | det |
| 40 | ratio | ratio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 higher | obl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 Ghana | case |
| 42 | Ghana | Ghana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 ratio | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Nigeria | cc |
| 44 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Ghana | conj |
| 45 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 39 | punct |
| 46 | 39 | 39 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 Ghana | nmod:unmarked |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 equivalents | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | 48 researchers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | time equivalents per million inhabitants in 2010 | than the average for sub-Saharan Africa; more property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | time equivalents per million inhabitants in 2010 not said here | than the ratio for Ghana 39 and Nigeria | 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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