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title: President Kaboré, who had been detained since the military junta too… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
description: President Kaboré, who had been detained since the military junta took power, was released on 6 April 2022. Who acts: military junta. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burkina Faso» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 200

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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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President Kaboré, who had been detained since the military junta took power, was released on 6 April 2022.

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**Who acts:** military junta · **What happens:** detain, take, release · **To what, where:** Kaboré, power, 6

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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 (military junta), 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:200
# text = President Kaboré, who had been detained since the military junta took power, was released on 6 April 2022.
1	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Kaboré	Kaboré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	detained	detain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	junta	junta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **detain** | past · perfect · passive |  | Kaboré  President |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | the military junta | power |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
| 3 | **release** | past · passive |  | Kaboré  President |  | 6  April |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |

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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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