Burundi, sentence 101
From Wikipedia, «Burundi», 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.
Major Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi, overthrew Bagaza in 1987, suspended the constitution, and dissolved political parties.
Who acts: Major Pierre · What happens: overthrow, suspend, dissolve · To what, where: Bagaza, 1987, constitution, political parties
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Burundi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Major Pierre), 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 | Major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Pierre | amod |
| 2 | Pierre | Pierre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 overthrew | nsubj |
| 3 | Buyoya | Buyoya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pierre | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tutsi | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Tutsi | det |
| 6 | Tutsi | Tutsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pierre | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pierre | punct |
| 8 | overthrew | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Bagaza | Bagaza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 overthrew | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1987 | case |
| 11 | 1987 | 1987 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 overthrew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suspended | punct |
| 13 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 overthrew | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 constitution | det |
| 15 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suspended | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dissolved | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dissolved | cc |
| 18 | dissolved | dissolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 suspended | parataxis |
| 19 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 parties | amod |
| 20 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dissolved | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 overthrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overthrow | past | Major Pierre and a Tutsi | Bagaza | 1987 | tree rules | |||
| 2 | suspend | past | Major Pierre and a Tutsi not said here | the constitution | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dissolve | participle | political parties | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=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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