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title: Despite this, the strong growth in the agriculture and services sect… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite this, the strong growth in the agriculture and services sectors in 2024 reduced the extreme poverty rate by 3 points to 23.2%, with a sharper decline in rural areas. Who acts: growth sectors. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burkina Faso» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 313

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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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Despite this, the strong growth in the agriculture and services sectors in 2024 reduced the extreme poverty rate by 3 points to 23.2%, with a sharper decline in rural areas.

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**Who acts:** growth sectors · **What happens:** reduce · **To what, where:** extreme poverty rate

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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 (growth sectors), 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:313
# text = Despite this, the strong growth in the agriculture and services sectors in 2024 reduced the extreme poverty rate by 3 points to 23.2%, with a sharper decline in rural areas.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	sectors	sector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	23.2	23.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	sharper	sharp	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reduce** | past | growth sectors in 2024 | the extreme poverty rate |  |  |  | despite this; by 3 points; a sharper decline in rural areas *parataxis* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Causer rate=Patient by point=Extent to %=Result |

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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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