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title: The northwestern part of present-day Burkina Faso was populated by h… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
description: The northwestern part of present-day Burkina Faso was populated by hunter-gatherers from 14,000 BC to 5,000 BC. Who acts: hunter gatherers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burkina Faso» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 29

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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 northwestern part of present-day Burkina Faso was populated by hunter-gatherers from 14,000 BC to 5,000 BC.

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**Who acts:** hunter gatherers · **What happens:** populate · **To what, where:** Burkina, 14,000 BC

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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 (hunter gatherers), 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:29
# text = The northwestern part of present-day Burkina Faso was populated by hunter-gatherers from 14,000 BC to 5,000 BC.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	northwestern	northwestern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	Burkina	Burkina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	Faso	Faso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	populated	populate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	gatherers	gatherer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:agent	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	14,000	14000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	BC	BC	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
21	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **populate** | past · passive | hunter gatherers | Burkina  the northwestern part of present day |  | 14,000 BC |  | to 5,000  BC | tree rules |

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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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