--- title: There were 48 researchers (in full-time equivalents) per million inh… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics description: There were 48 researchers (in full-time equivalents) per million inhabitants in 2010, which is more than twice the average for sub-Saharan Africa (20 per million population in 2013) and higher than the ratio for Ghana and Nigeria (39). Who acts: 48 researchers, time equivalents. 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There were 48 researchers (in full-time equivalents) per million inhabitants in 2010, which is more than twice the average for sub-Saharan Africa (20 per million population in 2013) and higher than the ratio for Ghana and Nigeria (39). **Who acts:** 48 researchers, time equivalents · **What happens:** be 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 (48 researchers, time equivalents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:362 # text = There were 48 researchers (in full-time equivalents) per million inhabitants in 2010, which is more than twice the average for sub-Saharan Africa (20 per million population in 2013) and higher than the ratio for Ghana and Nigeria (39). 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 48 48 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 researchers researcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 equivalents equivalent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 per per ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 2010 2010 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 conj _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 24 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 average average NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 sub-Saharan sub-Saharan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 30 per per ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nmod _ _ 32 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 2013 2013 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 conj _ _ 38 than than ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 ratio ratio NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Ghana Ghana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 Nigeria Nigeria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 39 39 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | 48 researchers | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | time equivalents per million inhabitants in 2010 | | | | | than the average for sub-Saharan Africa; more *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | time equivalents per million inhabitants in 2010 *not said here* | | | | | than the ratio for Ghana 39 and Nigeria | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 361](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Burkina_Faso/361/) - next →: [sentence 363](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Burkina_Faso/363/) - ↑ back to [Burkina Faso](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Burkina_Faso/)