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title: After much unrest, including mass demonstrations and strikes by stud… — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 89

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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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After much unrest, including mass demonstrations and strikes by students, labor unions, and civil servants, the military intervened.

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**Who acts:** military, students · **What happens:** intervene, demonstrate

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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 (military, students), 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:89
# text = After much unrest, including mass demonstrations and strikes by students, labor unions, and civil servants, the military intervened.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	unrest	unrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	including	including	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	demonstrations	demonstration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	strikes	strike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	unions	union	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	intervened	intervene	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intervene** | participle | the military |  |  |  | after much unrest and mass demonstrations by students and labor unions and strikes and civil servants |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **demonstrate** |  | students and labor unions |  |  |  |  |  | nom demonstration «act transitive»: by=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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