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title: The Moro-Naba Ceremony is still performed every Friday by the Moro-N… — Ouagadougou · tree and pragmatics
description: The Moro-Naba Ceremony is still performed every Friday by the Moro-Naba and his court. Who acts: Moro Naba. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ouagadougou» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ouagadougou, sentence 19

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From Wikipedia, [«Ouagadougou»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouagadougou), 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 Moro-Naba Ceremony is still performed every Friday by the Moro-Naba and his court.

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**Who acts:** Moro Naba · **What happens:** perform · **To what, where:** Moro Naba Ceremony

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ouagadougou». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moro Naba), 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:Ouagadougou:19
# text = The Moro-Naba Ceremony is still performed every Friday by the Moro-Naba and his court.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Moro	Moro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Naba	Naba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Ceremony	Ceremony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Moro	Moro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Naba	Naba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | present · passive | the Moro Naba and Zombre's court | the Moro Naba Ceremony |  |  | still; friday |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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, «Ouagadougou», 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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