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title: On 5 September 1896 French forces entered Ouagadougou and burned the… — Ouagadougou · tree and pragmatics
description: On 5 September 1896 French forces entered Ouagadougou and burned the city to the ground. Who acts: French forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ouagadougou» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ouagadougou, sentence 21

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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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On 5 September 1896 French forces entered Ouagadougou and burned the city to the ground.

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**Who acts:** French forces · **What happens:** enter, burn · **To what, where:** Ouagadougou, 5, city

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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 (French forces), 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:21
# text = On 5 September 1896 French forces entered Ouagadougou and burned the city to the ground.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1896	1896	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
5	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Ouagadougou	Ouagadougou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | French forces |  | Ouagadougou | 5  September |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ouagadougou=Destination |
| 2 | **burn** | past | French forces *not said here* | the city |  |  |  | to the ground | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent city=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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