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title: Lt. Col. Isaac Zida said that he would lead the country during its t… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
description: Lt. Col. Isaac Zida said that he would lead the country during its transitional period before the planned 2015 presidential election, but there were concerns over his close ties to the former president. Who acts: Lt. Isaac, Isaac, concerns. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burkina Faso» with its dependenc
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 154

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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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Lt. Col. Isaac Zida said that he would lead the country during its transitional period before the planned 2015 presidential election, but there were concerns over his close ties to the former president.

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**Who acts:** Lt. Isaac, Isaac, concerns · **What happens:** say, lead, plan, be · **To what, where:** country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lt. Isaac, Isaac, concerns), 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:154
# text = Lt. Col. Isaac Zida said that he would lead the country during its transitional period before the planned 2015 presidential election, but there were concerns over his close ties to the former president.
1	Lt.	Lt.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Col.	Col.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Zida	Zida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	transitional	transitional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
19	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	concerns	concern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lt. Isaac |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lead** | would | Isaac | the country |  |  | during country's transitional period | the planned 2015 presidential election *advcl* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 3 | **plan** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** | past | concerns over Isaac's close ties to the former president |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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