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title: Major Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi, overthrew Bagaza in 1987, suspended th… — Burundi · tree and pragmatics
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# Burundi, sentence 101

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From Wikipedia, [«Burundi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi), 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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Major Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi, overthrew Bagaza in 1987, suspended the constitution, and dissolved political parties.

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**Who acts:** Major Pierre · **What happens:** overthrow, suspend, dissolve · **To what, where:** Bagaza, 1987, constitution, political parties

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Burundi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Major Pierre), 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:Burundi:101
# text = Major Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi, overthrew Bagaza in 1987, suspended the constitution, and dissolved political parties.
1	Major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Pierre	Pierre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Buyoya	Buyoya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Tutsi	Tutsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Bagaza	Bagaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1987	1987	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
19	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overthrow** | past | Major Pierre and a Tutsi | Bagaza |  | 1987 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suspend** | past | Major Pierre and a Tutsi *not said here* | the constitution |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Theme |
| 3 | **dissolve** | participle |  | political parties |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient |

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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, «Burundi», 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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