Mali, sentence 150
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.
Yes, sure, there are jihadists in this zone, but the real problem is banditry, animal theft, score settling – people are enriching themselves using the fight against terrorists as a cover.
Who acts: jihadists, problem banditry, people · What happens: be, settle, enrich, use · To what, where: problem banditry, people, fight
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 (jihadists, problem banditry, people), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 sure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 are | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 are | expl |
| 6 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 7 | jihadists | jihadist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 are | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 zone | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 zone | det |
| 10 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jihadists | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 banditry | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 banditry | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 problem | det |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 problem | amod |
| 15 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 banditry | compound |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 banditry | cop |
| 17 | banditry | banditry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 theft | punct |
| 19 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 theft | compound |
| 20 | theft | theft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 banditry | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 score | punct |
| 22 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 banditry | conj |
| 23 | settling | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 banditry | acl |
| 24 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 enriching | punct |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 enriching | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 enriching | aux |
| 27 | enriching | enrich | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 enriching | obj |
| 29 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 enriching | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fight | det |
| 31 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 using | obj |
| 32 | against | against | ADP | _ | 33 terrorists | case |
| 33 | terrorists | terrorist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 using | obl |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 cover | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 cover | det |
| 36 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 using | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | jihadists in this zone | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | problem banditry and animal theft and score | animal theft conj; score conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | settle | gerund | problem banditry and animal theft and score not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | enrich | present · progressive | people | people | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Destination | ||||
| 5 | use | gerund | people not said here | the fight | against terrorists; as a cover | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent fight=Duration as cover=Attribute |
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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