Bamako, sentence 17
From Wikipedia, «Bamako», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The kafu of Bamako was founded around 1650 by the Niare family, perhaps associated with a Soninke man named Bamba Sanogo.
Who acts: Niare family · What happens: found, associate, name · To what, where: kafu, 1650, Soninke man
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bamako». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niare family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kafu | det |
| 2 | kafu | kafu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Bamako | case |
| 4 | Bamako | Bamako | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kafu | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 founded | aux:pass |
| 6 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 1650 | case |
| 8 | 1650 | 1650 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 founded | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 family | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 family | det |
| 11 | Niare | Niare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 family | compound |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 founded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 associated | punct |
| 14 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 15 associated | advmod |
| 15 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 founded | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | Soninke | Soninke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 man | compound |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 associated | obl |
| 20 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 man | acl |
| 21 | Bamba | Bamba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 named | xcomp |
| 22 | Sanogo | Sanogo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Bamba | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | the Niare family | the kafu of Bamako | 1650 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | associate | participle | the Niare family not said here | with a Soninke man; perhaps property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with man=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | a Soninke man not said here | Bamba xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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