Mali, sentence 117
From Wikipedia, «Mali», 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.
Scattered acts of rioting and vandalism of public buildings followed, but most actions by the dissidents remained nonviolent.
Who acts: Scattered acts, rioting, dissidents · What happens: follow, remain, act · To what, where: public buildings
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mali». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scattered acts, rioting, dissidents), 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 | Scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 2 acts | amod |
| 2 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 rioting | case |
| 4 | rioting | rioting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 acts | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 vandalism | cc |
| 6 | vandalism | vandalism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rioting | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 buildings | case |
| 8 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 buildings | amod |
| 9 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vandalism | nmod |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 buildings | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 actions | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 actions | cc |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 actions | amod |
| 14 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 acts | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 dissidents | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dissidents | det |
| 17 | dissidents | dissident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 actions | nmod |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | nonviolent | nonviolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 remained | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | participle | public buildings not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remain | past | Scattered acts of rioting and vandalism of public buildings but most actions by the dissidents | nonviolent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | act | rioting and vandalism of public buildings | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | act | the dissidents | nom action «act intransitive»: by=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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