Burkina Faso, sentence 395
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 Mossi claim descent from warriors who migrated to present-day Burkina Faso from northern Ghana around 1100 AD.
Who acts: warriors · What happens: migrate, present · To what, where: northern Ghana, Mossi claim descent
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 (warriors), 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 | 4 descent | det |
| 2 | Mossi | Mossi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 descent | compound |
| 3 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 descent | compound |
| 4 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 warriors | case |
| 6 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 descent | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 migrated | nsubj |
| 8 | migrated | migrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 warriors | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 present | mark |
| 10 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 migrated | xcomp |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 day | punct |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 present | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | Burkina | Burkina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 day | appos |
| 14 | Faso | Faso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Burkina | flat |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Ghana | case |
| 16 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Ghana | amod |
| 17 | Ghana | Ghana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 present | obl |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 1100 | case |
| 19 | 1100 | 1100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 present | obl |
| 20 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 1100 | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 descent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | migrate | past | warriors | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | present | to-infinitive | warriors not said here | northern Ghana | day | around 1100 AD | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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