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title: The colonialist officers and their home governments also made treati… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
description: The colonialist officers and their home governments also made treaties among themselves. Who acts: colonialist officers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burkina Faso» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 48

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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 colonialist officers and their home governments also made treaties among themselves.

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**Who acts:** colonialist officers · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** treaties

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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 (colonialist officers), 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:48
# text = The colonialist officers and their home governments also made treaties among themselves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	colonialist	colonialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	treaties	treaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the colonialist officers and officers's home governments | treaties |  |  |  | among officers *= officer* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset treaty=Product |

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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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