Ouagadougou, sentence 21
From Wikipedia, «Ouagadougou», 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.
On 5 September 1896 French forces entered Ouagadougou and burned the city to the ground.
Who acts: French forces · What happens: enter, burn · To what, where: Ouagadougou, 5, city
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ouagadougou». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (French forces), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 5 | case |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 entered | obl |
| 3 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 5 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1896 | 1896 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 5 | flat |
| 5 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 forces | amod |
| 6 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Ouagadougou | Ouagadougou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 burned | cc |
| 10 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 entered | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 burned | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 burned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | French forces | Ouagadougou | 5 September | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ouagadougou=Destination | |||
| 2 | burn | past | French forces not said here | the city | to the ground | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent city=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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