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title: The Miombo woodlands, which stretch across parts of Burundi, are the… — Burundi · tree and pragmatics
description: The Miombo woodlands, which stretch across parts of Burundi, are the location of intense illegal logging activity, focused on extracting hardwoods for export to China. Who acts: Miombo woodlands. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burundi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burundi, sentence 284

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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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The Miombo woodlands, which stretch across parts of Burundi, are the location of intense illegal logging activity, focused on extracting hardwoods for export to China.

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**Who acts:** Miombo woodlands · **What happens:** stretch, be, focus, extract · **To what, where:** parts, location, hardwoods, China

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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 (Miombo woodlands), 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:284
# text = The Miombo woodlands, which stretch across parts of Burundi, are the location of intense illegal logging activity, focused on extracting hardwoods for export to China.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Miombo	Miombo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stretch	stretch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Burundi	Burundi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	intense	intense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	logging	logging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	focused	focus	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
22	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	extracting	extract	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	hardwoods	hardwood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	export	export	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | present | the Miombo woodlands |  |  | parts of Burundi |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across part=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Miombo woodlands | the location |  |  |  | of intense illegal logging activity | tree rules |
| 3 | **focus** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **extract** | gerund |  | hardwoods | China |  |  | for export | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hardwood=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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