Burundi, sentence 161
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.
In June 2004, the UN stepped in and took over peacekeeping responsibilities as a signal of growing international support for the already markedly advanced peace process.
Who acts: UN, signal · What happens: step in, take over, grow · To what, where: peacekeeping responsibilities, international support
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 (UN, signal), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 June | case |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stepped | obl |
| 3 | 2004 | 2004 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 June | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 June | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 UN | det |
| 6 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stepped | nsubj |
| 7 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 stepped | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stepped | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 took | compound:prt |
| 12 | peacekeeping | peacekeeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 responsibilities | compound |
| 13 | responsibilities | responsibility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 signal | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 signal | det |
| 16 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 growing | mark |
| 18 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 signal | acl |
| 19 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 support | amod |
| 20 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 growing | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 process | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 process | det |
| 23 | already | already | ADV | _ | 25 advanced | advmod |
| 24 | markedly | markedly | ADV | _ | 25 advanced | advmod |
| 25 | advanced | advanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 process | amod |
| 26 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 process | compound |
| 27 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 growing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step in | past | the UN | june | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take over | past | the UN not said here | peacekeeping responsibilities | as a signal | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent responsibility=Theme | |||
| 3 | grow | gerund | a signal not said here | international support | for the advanced peace process | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent support=Product for process=Beneficiary |
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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