Burundi, sentence 22
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.
Less than 6% of its land was covered by trees, with over half of that being for commercial plantations.
Who acts: trees, that · What happens: cover, be
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 (trees, that), 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 | Less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 6 | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 Less | fixed |
| 3 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 % | nummod |
| 4 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 9 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 land | nmod:poss |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 % | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 covered | aux:pass |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 trees | case |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 covered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 half | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 half | case |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 half | advmod |
| 15 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 covered | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 plantations | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 plantations | nsubj |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 plantations | cop |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 plantations | case |
| 20 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plantations | amod |
| 21 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 half | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | trees | half parataxis | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | that | of commercial plantations | 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Burundi», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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