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title: The Force Publique and the British Lake Force then started a thrust… — Burundi · tree and pragmatics
description: The Force Publique and the British Lake Force then started a thrust to capture Tabora, an administrative centre of German East Africa. Who acts: Force Publique. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burundi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burundi, sentence 55

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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 Force Publique and the British Lake Force then started a thrust to capture Tabora, an administrative centre of German East Africa.

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**Who acts:** Force Publique · **What happens:** start, capture · **To what, where:** thrust, Tabora

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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 (Force Publique), 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:55
# text = The Force Publique and the British Lake Force then started a thrust to capture Tabora, an administrative centre of German East Africa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Force	Force	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Publique	Publique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Force	Force	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	Tabora	Tabora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the Force Publique and the British Lake Force | a thrust |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thrust=Eventuality |
| 2 | **capture** | to-infinitive | the Force Publique and the British Lake Force *not said here* | Tabora |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabora=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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