Burundi, sentence 55
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.
The Force Publique and the British Lake Force then started a thrust to capture Tabora, an administrative centre of German East Africa.
Who acts: Force Publique · What happens: start, capture · To what, where: thrust, Tabora
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 (Force Publique), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Publique | det |
| 2 | Force | Force | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Publique | compound |
| 3 | Publique | Publique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 started | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Force | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Force | det |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Force | amod |
| 7 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Force | compound |
| 8 | Force | Force | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Publique | conj |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 started | advmod |
| 10 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thrust | det |
| 12 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 started | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 capture | mark |
| 14 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thrust | acl |
| 15 | Tabora | Tabora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 capture | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 centre | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 centre | det |
| 18 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 centre | amod |
| 19 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Tabora | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Africa | case |
| 21 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 East | compound |
| 22 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Africa | compound |
| 23 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 centre | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the Force Publique and the British Lake Force | a thrust | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thrust=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | capture | to-infinitive | the Force Publique and the British Lake Force not said here | Tabora | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabora=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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