Burundi, sentence 3
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.
It is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and southeast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Lake Tanganyika lies along its southwestern border.
Who acts: Democratic Republic, Lake · What happens: border, lie · To what, where: country, southwestern border
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 (Democratic Republic, Lake), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bordered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bordered | aux:pass |
| 3 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Rwanda | case |
| 5 | Rwanda | Rwanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bordered | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 north | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 north | det |
| 8 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bordered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tanzania | punct |
| 10 | Tanzania | Tanzania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 north | appos |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 east | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 east | det |
| 13 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 north | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 southeast | cc |
| 15 | southeast | southeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 east | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Republic | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Republic | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Republic | det |
| 19 | Democratic | Democratic | PROPN | _ | 20 Republic | compound |
| 20 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bordered | obl:agent |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Congo | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Congo | det |
| 23 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Republic | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 west | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 west | det |
| 26 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bordered | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 lies | punct |
| 28 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 lies | nsubj |
| 29 | Tanganyika | Tanganyika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Lake | flat |
| 30 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bordered | conj |
| 31 | along | along | ADP | _ | 34 border | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 border | nmod:poss |
| 33 | southwestern | southwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 border | amod |
| 34 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lies | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | border | present · passive | the Democratic Republic of the Congo | country | by Rwanda; to the north to the east and southeast; to the west | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | lie | present | Lake | country's southwestern border | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along border=Location |
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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