Bamako, sentence 70
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.
Before the introduction of this program there was a long standing informal waste collection system carried out by "Economic interest groups."
Who acts: long standing · What happens: be, carry out, introduce · To what, where: introduction, informal waste collection system, program
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 (long standing), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 introduction | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 introduction | det |
| 3 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 program | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 program | det |
| 6 | program | program | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 introduction | nmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 standing | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 standing | amod |
| 11 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 12 | informal | informal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 system | amod |
| 13 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 system | compound |
| 14 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 system | compound |
| 15 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | appos |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 system | acl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 carried | compound:prt |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 groups | case |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 groups | punct |
| 20 | Economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 groups | amod |
| 21 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 groups | compound |
| 22 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 system | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 system | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a long standing | the introduction of this program; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before introduction=Location | ||||
| 2 | carry out | participle | informal waste collection system not said here | by Economic interest groups | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | introduce | this program | nom introduction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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