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title: Talks were initiated under the aegis of former Tanzanian President J… — Burundi · tree and pragmatics
description: Talks were initiated under the aegis of former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere in 1995; following his death, South African President Nelson Mandela took the helm. Who acts: Nelson, president. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burundi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burundi, sentence 142

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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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Talks were initiated under the aegis of former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere in 1995; following his death, South African President Nelson Mandela took the helm.

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**Who acts:** Nelson, president · **What happens:** initiate, follow, take, die · **To what, where:** Talks, aegis, death, helm

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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 (Nelson, president), 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:142
# text = Talks were initiated under the aegis of former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere in 1995; following his death, South African President Nelson Mandela took the helm.
1	Talks	talk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	initiated	initiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	aegis	aegis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	Tanzanian	Tanzanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Julius	Julius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	Nyerere	Nyerere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Nelson	Nelson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	Mandela	Mandela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	helm	helm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **initiate** | past · passive |  | Talks |  | the aegis of former Julius  Tanzanian President |  | in 1995 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | Nelson  South African President *not said here* | president's death |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | Nelson  South African President | the helm |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helm=Theme |
| 4 | **die** |  | president |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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, «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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