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title: On 15 January 2016, gunmen armed with heavy weapons attacked central… — Ouagadougou · tree and pragmatics
description: On 15 January 2016, gunmen armed with heavy weapons attacked central Ouagadougou at the Cappuccino restaurant and the Splendid Hotel. Who acts: gunmen. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ouagadougou» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ouagadougou, sentence 24

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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 15 January 2016, gunmen armed with heavy weapons attacked central Ouagadougou at the Cappuccino restaurant and the Splendid Hotel.

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**Who acts:** gunmen · **What happens:** attack · **To what, where:** central Ouagadougou, 15

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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 (gunmen), 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:24
# text = On 15 January 2016, gunmen armed with heavy weapons attacked central Ouagadougou at the Cappuccino restaurant and the Splendid Hotel.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
3	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	gunmen	gunman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Ouagadougou	Ouagadougou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Cappuccino	Cappuccino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Splendid	Splendid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Hotel	Hotel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	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 | **attack** | past | gunmen | central Ouagadougou |  | 15  January |  | at the Cappuccino restaurant and the Splendid Hotel | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ouagadougou=Patient |

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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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