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title: The widespread distrust of politicians and lack of political involve… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 268

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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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The widespread distrust of politicians and lack of political involvement by many residents complicated this process.

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**Who acts:** many residents · **What happens:** complicate, distrust, lack, involve · **To what, where:** process, widespread distrust, politicians, political involvement

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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 (many residents), 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:268
# text = The widespread distrust of politicians and lack of political involvement by many residents complicated this process.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	distrust	distrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	involvement	involvement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	complicated	complicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complicate** | participle | many residents *not said here* | this process |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **distrust** |  |  | politicians and lack of political involvement by many residents |  |  |  |  | nom distrust «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **lack** |  |  | political involvement by many residents |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **involve** |  | many residents |  |  |  |  |  | nom involvement «act transitive»: by=agent |

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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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