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title: In the 1980s, Burundi's health authorities asked the United Nations… — Burundi · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1980s, Burundi's health authorities asked the United Nations Development Program for support to develop quality control for and begin new research on pharmaceuticals from medicinal plants. Who acts: health authorities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burundi» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Burundi, sentence 345

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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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In the 1980s, Burundi's health authorities asked the United Nations Development Program for support to develop quality control for and begin new research on pharmaceuticals from medicinal plants.

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**Who acts:** health authorities · **What happens:** ask, develop, begin · **To what, where:** Nations Development Program, 1980s, quality control, new research, pharmaceuticals

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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 (health authorities), 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:345
# text = In the 1980s, Burundi's health authorities asked the United Nations Development Program for support to develop quality control for and begin new research on pharmaceuticals from medicinal plants.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Burundi	Burundi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	12	compound	_	_
12	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
13	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Program	Program	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	iobj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	develop	develop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
19	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pharmaceuticals	pharmaceutical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	medicinal	medicinal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Burundi's health authorities |  | the Nations Development Program | the 1980s |  | for support | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent program=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **develop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Burundi's health authorities *not said here* | quality control |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Product |
| 3 | **begin** | present | Burundi's health authorities *not said here* | new research |  | pharmaceuticals |  | from medicinal plants | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent research=Eventuality |

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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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