--- title: Despite the 2024 Maputo Agreement to expand the protection of the ar… — Burundi · tree and pragmatics description: Despite the 2024 Maputo Agreement to expand the protection of the area and ban the extraction of certain timber, Burundi's key ports have served as export hubs for illegally harvested timber, specifically for illegal timber from the DRC. 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Despite the 2024 Maputo Agreement to expand the protection of the area and ban the extraction of certain timber, Burundi's key ports have served as export hubs for illegally harvested timber, specifically for illegal timber from the DRC. **What happens:** expand, ban, serve, harvest, protect, extract · **To what, where:** protection, extraction, key ports, area, certain timber 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:285 # text = Despite the 2024 Maputo Agreement to expand the protection of the area and ban the extraction of certain timber, Burundi's key ports have served as export hubs for illegally harvested timber, specifically for illegal timber from the DRC. 1 Despite despite ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 4 Maputo Maputo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Agreement agreement NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 expand expand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 ban ban VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 extraction extraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 timber timber NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 Burundi Burundi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 key key ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 ports port NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 export export NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 hubs hub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 illegally illegally ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 harvested harvest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 timber timber NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 specifically specifically ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 illegal illegal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 timber timber NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 DRC DRC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **expand** | to-infinitive | | the protection of the area | | | | despite the 2024 Maputo Agreement | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent protection=Patient | | 2 | **ban** | infinitive | | the extraction of certain timber | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer extraction=Theme | | 3 | **serve** | present · perfect · passive | | Burundi's key ports | | | | as export hubs; for harvested timber; for illegal timber from the DRC | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for timber=Recipient | | 4 | **harvest** | participle | | | | | | illegally *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **protect** | | | the area | | | | | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **extract** | | | certain timber | | | | | nom extraction «process transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 284](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Burundi/284/) - next →: [sentence 286](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Burundi/286/) - ↑ back to [Burundi](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Burundi/)