Burundi, sentence 142
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.
Talks were initiated under the aegis of former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere in 1995; following his death, South African President Nelson Mandela took the helm.
Who acts: Nelson, president · What happens: initiate, follow, take, die · To what, where: Talks, aegis, death, helm
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 (Nelson, president), 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 | Talks | talk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 initiated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 initiated | aux:pass |
| 3 | initiated | initiate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 aegis | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 aegis | det |
| 6 | aegis | aegis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 initiated | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Julius | case |
| 8 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Julius | amod |
| 9 | Tanzanian | Tanzanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 President | compound |
| 10 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Julius | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Julius | Julius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 aegis | nmod |
| 12 | Nyerere | Nyerere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Julius | flat |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1995 | case |
| 14 | 1995 | 1995 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 initiated | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 following | punct |
| 16 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 took | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 death | nmod:poss |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 following | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 20 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 President | compound |
| 21 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 President | amod |
| 22 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Nelson | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Nelson | Nelson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 took | nsubj |
| 24 | Mandela | Mandela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Nelson | flat |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 initiated | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 helm | det |
| 27 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 initiated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | initiate | past · passive | Talks | the aegis of former Julius Tanzanian President | in 1995 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | Nelson South African President not said here | president's death | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Nelson South African President | the helm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helm=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | president | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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