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title: RSP members Marcel Kafando, Edmond Koama, and Ousseini Yaro, investi… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
description: RSP members Marcel Kafando, Edmond Koama, and Ousseini Yaro, investigated as suspects in the Norbert Zongo assassination, were convicted in the Ouedraogo case and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burkina Faso» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 519

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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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RSP members Marcel Kafando, Edmond Koama, and Ousseini Yaro, investigated as suspects in the Norbert Zongo assassination, were convicted in the Ouedraogo case and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.

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**What happens:** investigate, convict, sentence · **To what, where:** Marcel, RSP members, Ouedraogo case

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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: 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:519
# text = RSP members Marcel Kafando, Edmond Koama, and Ousseini Yaro, investigated as suspects in the Norbert Zongo assassination, were convicted in the Ouedraogo case and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
1	RSP	rsp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Marcel	Marcel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Kafando	Kafando	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Edmond	Edmond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	Koama	Koama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Ousseini	Ousseini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	Yaro	Yaro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	investigated	investigate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	suspects	suspect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Norbert	Norbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	Zongo	Zongo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	assassination	assassination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	convicted	convict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Ouedraogo	Ouedraogo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sentenced	sentence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	lengthy	lengthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **investigate** | participle |  | Marcel and Edmond and Ousseini *not said here* |  |  |  | as suspects in the Norbert assassination | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as suspect=Value |
| 2 | **convict** | past · passive |  | RSP members |  | the Ouedraogo case |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sentence** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to lengthy prison terms | tree rules |

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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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