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title: Thomas Sankara, was appointed prime minister in January 1983, but wa… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
description: Thomas Sankara, was appointed prime minister in January 1983, but was subsequently arrested. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burkina Faso» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 104

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From Wikipedia, [«Burkina Faso»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina_Faso), 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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Thomas Sankara, was appointed prime minister in January 1983, but was subsequently arrested.

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**What happens:** appoint, arrest · **To what, where:** Thomas

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Burkina Faso». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Burkina_Faso:104
# text = Thomas Sankara, was appointed prime minister in January 1983, but was subsequently arrested.
1	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Sankara	Sankara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	1983	1983	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past · passive |  | Thomas |  |  | january | prime minister *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme minister=Attribute |
| 2 | **arrest** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | subsequently *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» |

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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, «Burkina Faso», 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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