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title: Following the Second World War, Ruanda-Urundi was classified as a Un… — Burundi · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the Second World War, Ruanda-Urundi was classified as a United Nations trust territory under Belgian administrative authority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burundi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burundi, sentence 61

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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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Following the Second World War, Ruanda-Urundi was classified as a United Nations trust territory under Belgian administrative authority.

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**What happens:** follow, classify

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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: 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:61
# text = Following the Second World War, Ruanda-Urundi was classified as a United Nations trust territory under Belgian administrative authority.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Second	Second	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Ruanda	Ruanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Urundi	Urundi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	classified	classify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	15	compound	_	_
15	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
16	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Belgian	Belgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **classify** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as a Nations trust territory under Belgian administrative authority; the Second World War *nsubj:pass* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as territory=Attribute |

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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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