Burkina Faso, sentence 48
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 colonialist officers and their home governments also made treaties among themselves.
Who acts: colonialist officers · What happens: make · To what, where: treaties
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 (colonialist officers), 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 | 3 officers | det |
| 2 | colonialist | colonialist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 officers | compound |
| 3 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 governments | cc |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 governments | nmod:poss |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 governments | compound |
| 7 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 officers | conj |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | treaties | treaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 themselves | case |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 made | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the colonialist officers and officers's home governments | treaties | among officers = officer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset treaty=Product |
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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