Burkina Faso, sentence 45
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.
During the 18th century, the Gwiriko Empire was established at Bobo-Dioulasso and ethnic groups such as the Dyan, Lobi, and Birifor settled along the Black Volta.
Who acts: Birifor · What happens: establish, settle · To what, where: Gwiriko Empire, Bobo
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 (Birifor), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 established | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 century | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Empire | det |
| 7 | Gwiriko | Gwiriko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Empire | compound |
| 8 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 established | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 established | aux:pass |
| 10 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Bobo | case |
| 12 | Bobo | Bobo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 established | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dioulasso | punct |
| 14 | Dioulasso | Dioulasso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bobo | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 groups | cc |
| 16 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 groups | amod |
| 17 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Bobo | conj |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 21 Dyan | case |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 such | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Dyan | det |
| 21 | Dyan | Dyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 groups | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lobi | punct |
| 23 | Lobi | Lobi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Dyan | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 settled | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 settled | cc |
| 26 | Birifor | Birifor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 settled | nsubj |
| 27 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 established | conj |
| 28 | along | along | ADP | _ | 31 Volta | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Volta | det |
| 30 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Volta | compound |
| 31 | Volta | Volta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 settled | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past · passive | the Gwiriko Empire | Bobo and Dioulasso and ethnic groups such the Dyan and Lobi | century | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | settle | past | Birifor | along the Black Volta | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: 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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