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title: Burundi's export earnings – and its ability to pay for imports – res… — Burundi · tree and pragmatics
description: Burundi's export earnings – and its ability to pay for imports – rests primarily on weather conditions and international coffee and tea prices. Who acts: ability. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burundi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burundi, sentence 298

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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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Burundi's export earnings – and its ability to pay for imports – rests primarily on weather conditions and international coffee and tea prices.

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**Who acts:** ability · **What happens:** pay, rest · **To what, where:** weather conditions, export earnings

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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 (ability), 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:298
# text = Burundi's export earnings – and its ability to pay for imports – rests primarily on weather conditions and international coffee and tea prices.
1	Burundi	Burundi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	export	export	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	earnings	earning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ability	ability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	imports	import	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	rests	rest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | to-infinitive | malnutrition's ability *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for imports | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for import=Theme |
| 2 | **rest** | present | malnutrition's ability |  |  | weather conditions and international coffee and tea prices |  | primarily *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on condition=Location |

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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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