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title: The 6 m statue faces the railway station, welcoming travellers into… — Ouagadougou · tree and pragmatics
description: The 6 m statue faces the railway station, welcoming travellers into Ouaga. Who acts: m statue. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ouagadougou» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ouagadougou, sentence 95

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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 6 m statue faces the railway station, welcoming travellers into Ouaga.

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**Who acts:** m statue · **What happens:** face · **To what, where:** railway station, Ouaga

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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 (m statue), 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:95
# text = The 6 m statue faces the railway station, welcoming travellers into Ouaga.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	m	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	faces	face	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	welcoming	welcoming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ouaga	Ouaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | present | the m statue | the railway station and welcoming travellers |  | Ouaga |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme station=Destination |

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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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