Burkina Faso, sentence 489
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 oral tradition continued to have an influence on Burkinabè writers in the post-independence Burkina Faso of the 1960s, such as Nazi Boni and Roger Nikiema.
What happens: continue, have · To what, where: oral tradition, influence, Burkinabè writers
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: 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 tradition | det |
| 2 | oral | oral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tradition | amod |
| 3 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tradition | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 continued | xcomp |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 influence | det |
| 8 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 writers | case |
| 10 | Burkinabè | Burkinabè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 writers | compound |
| 11 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 influence | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 post-independence | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 post-independence | det |
| 14 | post-independence | post-independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 writers | nmod |
| 15 | Burkina | Burkina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Faso | compound |
| 16 | Faso | Faso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 post-independence | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 1960s | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 1960s | det |
| 19 | 1960s | 1960s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 16 Faso | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Nazi | punct |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 23 Nazi | case |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 such | fixed |
| 23 | Nazi | Nazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 1960s | nmod |
| 24 | Boni | Boni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Nazi | flat |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Roger | cc |
| 26 | Roger | Roger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Nazi | conj |
| 27 | Nikiema | Nikiema | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Roger | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tradition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | participle | the oral tradition not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | a influence | Burkinabè writers in the post-independence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Patient |
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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