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title: Thus, the distinction between Hutu and Tutsi was also a socio-cultur… — Burundi · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, the distinction between Hutu and Tutsi was also a socio-cultural concept, instead of a purely ethnic one. Who acts: distinction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burundi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burundi, sentence 44

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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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Thus, the distinction between Hutu and Tutsi was also a socio-cultural concept, instead of a purely ethnic one.

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**Who acts:** distinction · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** socio-cultural concept

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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 (distinction), 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:44
# text = Thus, the distinction between Hutu and Tutsi was also a socio-cultural concept, instead of a purely ethnic one.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Hutu	Hutu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Tutsi	Tutsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	socio-cultural	socio-cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	concept	concept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	purely	purely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the distinction between Hutu and Tutsi | a socio-cultural concept and a ethnic one |  |  |  | a ethnic one *conj*; thus *property* | 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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