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title: The largest is the state University of Ouagadougou, which was founde… — Ouagadougou · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest is the state University of Ouagadougou, which was founded in 1974. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ouagadougou» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ouagadougou, sentence 40

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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 largest is the state University of Ouagadougou, which was founded in 1974.

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**What happens:** be, found · **To what, where:** largest state University, 1974

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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: 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:40
# text = The largest is the state University of Ouagadougou, which was founded in 1974.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	compound	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ouagadougou	Ouagadougou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the largest state University |  |  |  | of Ouagadougou | tree rules |
| 2 | **found** | past · passive |  | the largest state University |  | 1974 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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