Bamako, sentence 194
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.
In the midst of that trial, two sides argue whether the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, or perhaps corruption, are guilty of the financial state of many poverty-stricken African countries.
Who acts: two sides · What happens: argue, be · To what, where: midst
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 (two sides), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 argue | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 trial | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 trial | det |
| 6 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 midst | punct |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 sides | nummod |
| 9 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 argue | nsubj |
| 10 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 Bank | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bank | det |
| 13 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bank | compound |
| 14 | Bank | Bank | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 argue | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Monetary | cc |
| 16 | International | International | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Monetary | amod |
| 17 | Monetary | Monetary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bank | conj |
| 18 | Fund | Fund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Monetary | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 corruption | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 corruption | cc |
| 21 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 22 corruption | advmod |
| 22 | corruption | corruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Monetary | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 guilty | punct |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 guilty | cop |
| 25 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 argue | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 state | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 state | det |
| 28 | financial | financial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 state | amod |
| 29 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 guilty | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 countries | case |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 countries | amod |
| 32 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stricken | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 poverty | punct |
| 34 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 countries | amod |
| 35 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 countries | amod |
| 36 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 state | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 argue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | two sides | the midst of that trial | the World Bank and International Monetary ccomp | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | present | two sides not said here | of the financial state of many stricken African countries; guilty property | tree rules |
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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