Burundi, sentence 304
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.
Studies since 2007 have shown Burundians to have extremely poor levels of satisfaction with life; the World Happiness Report 2018 rated them the world's least happy.
Who acts: Studies, World Happiness Report · What happens: show, have, rate · To what, where: poor levels, levels
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 (Studies, World Happiness Report), 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 | Studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shown | nsubj |
| 2 | since | since | ADP | _ | 3 2007 | case |
| 3 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Studies | nmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shown | aux |
| 5 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | Burundians | Burundian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 shown | obl:agent |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shown | xcomp |
| 9 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 10 poor | advmod |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 levels | amod |
| 11 | levels | level | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 satisfaction | case |
| 13 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 levels | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 satisfaction | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 rated | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Report | det |
| 18 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Report | compound |
| 19 | Happiness | Happiness | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Report | compound |
| 20 | Report | Report | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 rated | nsubj |
| 21 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Report | flat |
| 22 | rated | rate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shown | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rated | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 happy | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 world | case |
| 27 | least | least | ADV | Degree=Sup | 28 happy | advmod |
| 28 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rated | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · perfect | Studies since 2007 | Burundians obl:agent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | Studies since 2007 not said here | poor levels of satisfaction with life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rate | past | the World Happiness Report | levels = level | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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