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title: An attempted coup d'état on 13 May failed to depose Nkurunziza. — Burundi · tree and pragmatics
description: An attempted coup d'état on 13 May failed to depose Nkurunziza. Who acts: attempted coup d'état. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burundi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burundi, sentence 205

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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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An attempted coup d'état on 13 May failed to depose Nkurunziza.

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**Who acts:** attempted coup d'état · **What happens:** attempt, fail, not depose · **To what, where:** Nkurunziza

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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 (attempted coup d'état), 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:205
# text = An attempted coup d'état on 13 May failed to depose Nkurunziza.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	d'état	d'état	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	depose	depose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	Nkurunziza	Nkurunziza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fail** | past | a attempted coup d'état on 13 |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **depose** | to-infinitive | a attempted coup d'état on 13 *not said here* | Nkurunziza |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nkurunziza=Theme |

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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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