Burundi, sentence 285
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.
Despite the 2024 Maputo Agreement to expand the protection of the area and ban the extraction of certain timber, Burundi's key ports have served as export hubs for illegally harvested timber, specifically for illegal timber from the DRC.
What happens: expand, ban, serve, harvest, protect, extract · To what, where: protection, extraction, key ports, area, certain timber
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: 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 5 Agreement | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Agreement | det |
| 3 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Agreement | nummod |
| 4 | Maputo | Maputo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Agreement | compound |
| 5 | Agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expand | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 expand | mark |
| 7 | expand | expand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 protection | det |
| 9 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expand | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 area | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 area | det |
| 12 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 protection | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ban | cc |
| 14 | ban | ban | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 expand | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 extraction | det |
| 16 | extraction | extraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ban | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 timber | case |
| 18 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 timber | amod |
| 19 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 extraction | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 served | punct |
| 21 | Burundi | Burundi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 ports | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Burundi | case |
| 23 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ports | amod |
| 24 | ports | port | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 served | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 served | aux |
| 26 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 expand | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 hubs | case |
| 28 | export | export | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hubs | compound |
| 29 | hubs | hub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 served | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 timber | case |
| 31 | illegally | illegally | ADV | _ | 32 harvested | advmod |
| 32 | harvested | harvest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 timber | amod |
| 33 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 served | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 timber | punct |
| 35 | specifically | specifically | ADV | _ | 38 timber | advmod |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 timber | case |
| 37 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 timber | amod |
| 38 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 served | obl |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 DRC | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 DRC | det |
| 41 | DRC | DRC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 timber | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 expand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expand | to-infinitive | the protection of the area | despite the 2024 Maputo Agreement | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent protection=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ban | infinitive | the extraction of certain timber | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer extraction=Theme | |||||
| 3 | serve | present · perfect · passive | Burundi's key ports | as export hubs; for harvested timber; for illegal timber from the DRC | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for timber=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | harvest | participle | illegally property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | protect | the area | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | extract | certain timber | nom extraction «process transitive»: of=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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