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title: The Mossi claim descent from warriors who migrated to present-day Bu… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mossi claim descent from warriors who migrated to present-day Burkina Faso from northern Ghana around 1100 AD. Who acts: warriors. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burkina Faso» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 395

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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 Mossi claim descent from warriors who migrated to present-day Burkina Faso from northern Ghana around 1100 AD.

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**Who acts:** warriors · **What happens:** migrate, present · **To what, where:** northern Ghana, Mossi claim descent

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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 (warriors), 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:395
# text = The Mossi claim descent from warriors who migrated to present-day Burkina Faso from northern Ghana around 1100 AD.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Mossi	Mossi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	migrated	migrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	Burkina	Burkina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	Faso	Faso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Ghana	Ghana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	around	around	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1100	1100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
20	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **migrate** | past | warriors |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **present** | to-infinitive | warriors *not said here* |  |  | northern Ghana | day | around 1100  AD | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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