Burundi, sentence 345
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 the 1980s, Burundi's health authorities asked the United Nations Development Program for support to develop quality control for and begin new research on pharmaceuticals from medicinal plants.
Who acts: health authorities · What happens: ask, develop, begin · To what, where: Nations Development Program, 1980s, quality control, new research, pharmaceuticals
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 (health authorities), 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 | _ | 3 1980s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1980s | det |
| 3 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 9 asked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1980s | punct |
| 5 | Burundi | Burundi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 authorities | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Burundi | case |
| 7 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 authorities | compound |
| 8 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Program | det |
| 11 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 12 Nations | compound |
| 12 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Program | compound |
| 13 | Development | Development | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Program | compound |
| 14 | Program | Program | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 support | case |
| 16 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 develop | mark |
| 18 | develop | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | xcomp |
| 19 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 control | compound |
| 20 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 develop | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 develop | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 begin | cc |
| 23 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | conj |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 research | amod |
| 25 | research | research | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begin | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 pharmaceuticals | case |
| 27 | pharmaceuticals | pharmaceutical | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 begin | obl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 plants | case |
| 29 | medicinal | medicinal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 plants | amod |
| 30 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 begin | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Burundi's health authorities | the Nations Development Program | the 1980s | for support | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent program=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | develop not said to happen | to-infinitive | Burundi's health authorities not said here | quality control | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Product | ||||
| 3 | begin | present | Burundi's health authorities not said here | new research | pharmaceuticals | from medicinal plants | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent research=Eventuality |
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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