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title: Nevertheless, the absolute number of people living in poverty remain… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, the absolute number of people living in poverty remains high, exceeding 5.5 million. Who acts: people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burkina Faso» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 314

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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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Nevertheless, the absolute number of people living in poverty remains high, exceeding 5.5 million.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** live, exceed · **To what, where:** poverty remains, 5.5 million

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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 (people), 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:314
# text = Nevertheless, the absolute number of people living in poverty remains high, exceeding 5.5 million.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obl	_	_
12	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	5.5	5.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | poverty remains |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in remains=Location |
| 2 | **exceed** | gerund | people *not said here* | 5.5 million |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot million=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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