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title: In the 1980s, when ecological awareness was still very low, Sankara… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1980s, when ecological awareness was still very low, Sankara was one of the few African leaders to consider environmental protection a priority. Who acts: ecological awareness, Sankara. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burkina Faso» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 118

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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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In the 1980s, when ecological awareness was still very low, Sankara was one of the few African leaders to consider environmental protection a priority.

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**Who acts:** ecological awareness, Sankara · **What happens:** be, consider · **To what, where:** 1980s, one, environmental protection

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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: who acts (ecological awareness, Sankara), 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:118
# text = In the 1980s, when ecological awareness was still very low, Sankara was one of the few African leaders to consider environmental protection a priority.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
6	ecological	ecological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	awareness	awareness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Sankara	Sankara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	environmental	environmental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	priority	priority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | ecological awareness |  |  | the 1980s | still | low *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Sankara | one |  |  |  | of the few African leaders | tree rules |
| 3 | **consider** | to-infinitive | Sankara *not said here* | environmental protection |  |  |  | a priority *obj* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent protection=Theme priority=Attribute |

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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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