Burkina Faso, sentence 519
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.
RSP members Marcel Kafando, Edmond Koama, and Ousseini Yaro, investigated as suspects in the Norbert Zongo assassination, were convicted in the Ouedraogo case and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
What happens: investigate, convict, sentence · To what, where: Marcel, RSP members, Ouedraogo case
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 | RSP | rsp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 members | amod |
| 2 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 convicted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Marcel | Marcel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 members | appos |
| 4 | Kafando | Kafando | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Marcel | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Edmond | punct |
| 6 | Edmond | Edmond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Marcel | conj |
| 7 | Koama | Koama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Edmond | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ousseini | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Ousseini | cc |
| 10 | Ousseini | Ousseini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Marcel | conj |
| 11 | Yaro | Yaro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ousseini | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 investigated | punct |
| 13 | investigated | investigate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Marcel | acl:relcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 suspects | case |
| 15 | suspects | suspect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 investigated | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 assassination | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 assassination | det |
| 18 | Norbert | Norbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 assassination | compound |
| 19 | Zongo | Zongo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Norbert | flat |
| 20 | assassination | assassination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suspects | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 members | punct |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 convicted | aux:pass |
| 23 | convicted | convict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 case | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 case | det |
| 26 | Ouedraogo | Ouedraogo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 case | compound |
| 27 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 convicted | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sentenced | cc |
| 29 | sentenced | sentence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 convicted | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 terms | case |
| 31 | lengthy | lengthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 terms | amod |
| 32 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 terms | compound |
| 33 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sentenced | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 convicted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | investigate | participle | Marcel and Edmond and Ousseini not said here | as suspects in the Norbert assassination | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as suspect=Value | ||||
| 2 | convict | past · passive | RSP members | the Ouedraogo case | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sentence | participle | to lengthy prison terms | 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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