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title: A vote in the Parliament of Burundi made the change official on 16 J… — Bujumbura · tree and pragmatics
description: A vote in the Parliament of Burundi made the change official on 16 January 2019, and as of late 2025, the transition is still ongoing, having been estimated to end in 2022. Who acts: vote. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bujumbura» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bujumbura, sentence 5

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From Wikipedia, [«Bujumbura»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bujumbura), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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A vote in the Parliament of Burundi made the change official on 16 January 2019, and as of late 2025, the transition is still ongoing, having been estimated to end in 2022.

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**Who acts:** vote · **What happens:** make, be, estimate, end · **To what, where:** change official, 16, 2022

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bujumbura». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vote), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bujumbura:5
# text = A vote in the Parliament of Burundi made the change official on 16 January 2019, and as of late 2025, the transition is still ongoing, having been estimated to end in 2022.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Burundi	Burundi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	official	official	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
14	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	csubj	_	_
21	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	transition	transition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	ongoing	ongoing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	estimated	estimate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | a vote in the Parliament of Burundi | the change official |  | 16  January  2019 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset official=Product |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | still | ongoing *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **estimate** | gerund · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **end** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | 2022 |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bujumbura», 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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