Burundi, sentence 42
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.
Hutu farmers that managed to acquire wealth and livestock were regularly granted the higher social status of Tutsi, some even became close advisors of the ganwa.
Who acts: Hutu farmers, some · What happens: manage, acquire, grant, become · To what, where: wealth, Hutu farmers, close advisors
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 (Hutu farmers, some), 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 | Hutu | Hutu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 farmers | compound |
| 2 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 managed | nsubj |
| 4 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 farmers | acl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 acquire | mark |
| 6 | acquire | acquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 managed | xcomp |
| 7 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 acquire | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 livestock | cc |
| 9 | livestock | livestock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wealth | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 granted | aux:pass |
| 11 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 12 granted | advmod |
| 12 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 status | det |
| 14 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 status | amod |
| 15 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 status | amod |
| 16 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 granted | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Tutsi | case |
| 18 | Tutsi | Tutsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 status | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 became | punct |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 became | nsubj |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 became | advmod |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 granted | conj |
| 23 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 advisors | amod |
| 24 | advisors | advisor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 became | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 ganwa | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ganwa | det |
| 27 | ganwa | ganwa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 advisors | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | Hutu farmers | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | acquire | to-infinitive | Hutu farmers not said here | wealth and livestock | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wealth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grant | past · passive | Hutu farmers | the higher social status of Tutsi obj; regularly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal status=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | past | some | close advisors of the ganwa | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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