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title: Less than 6% of its land was covered by trees, with over half of tha… — Burundi · tree and pragmatics
description: Less than 6% of its land was covered by trees, with over half of that being for commercial plantations. Who acts: trees, that. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burundi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burundi, sentence 22

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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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Less than 6% of its land was covered by trees, with over half of that being for commercial plantations.

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**Who acts:** trees, that · **What happens:** cover, be

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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 (trees, that), 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:22
# text = Less than 6% of its land was covered by trees, with over half of that being for commercial plantations.
1	Less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · passive | trees |  |  |  |  | half *parataxis* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | that |  |  |  |  | of commercial plantations | 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, «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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