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Mali, sentence 172

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.

Keïta and Prime Minister Boubou Cissé were arrested, and shortly after midnight Keïta announced his resignation, saying he did not want to see any bloodshed.

Who acts: midnight, Boubou · What happens: arrest, announce, say, not want, see, resign · To what, where: Boubou, resignation, bloodshed · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (midnight, Boubou), 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

compoundccconjnmod:descnsubj:passflataux:passpunctccadvmodcasensubjapposconjnmod:possobjpunctadvclnsubjauxadvmodccompmarkxcompdetobjpunctrootKeïtaPROPNandCCONJPrimePROPNMinisterPROPNBoubouPROPNCisséPROPNwereAUXarrestedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJshortlyADVafterADPmidnightNOUNKeïtaPROPNannouncedVERBhisPRONresignationNOUN,PUNCTsayingVERBhePRONdidAUXnotPARTwantVERBtoPARTseeVERBanyDETbloodshedNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1KeïtaKeïtaPROPNNumber=Sing4 Ministercompound
2andandCCONJ_3 Primecc
3PrimePrimePROPN_1 Keïtaconj
4MinisterMinisterPROPNNumber=Sing5 Boubounmod:desc
5BoubouBoubouPROPNNumber=Sing8 arrestednsubj:pass
6CisséCisséPROPNNumber=Sing5 Boubouflat
7werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 arrestedaux:pass
8arrestedarrestVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
9,,PUNCT_15 announcedpunct
10andandCCONJ_15 announcedcc
11shortlyshortlyADV_13 midnightadvmod
12afterafterADP_13 midnightcase
13midnightmidnightNOUNNumber=Sing15 announcednsubj
14KeïtaKeïtaPROPNNumber=Sing13 midnightappos
15announcedannounceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 arrestedconj
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 resignationnmod:poss
17resignationresignationNOUNNumber=Sing15 announcedobj
18,,PUNCT_19 sayingpunct
19sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 announcedadvcl
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 wantnsubj
21diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 wantaux
22notnotPARTPolarity=Neg23 wantadvmod
23wantwantVERBVerbForm=Inf19 sayingccomp
24totoPART_25 seemark
25seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf23 wantxcomp
26anyanyDETPronType=Ind27 bloodsheddet
27bloodshedbloodshedNOUNNumber=Sing25 seeobj
28..PUNCT_8 arrestedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1arrestpast · passiveBoubou Keïta Ministervn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2announce speech: otherpastmidnightBoubou's resignationvn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resignation=Theme
3say speech: assertgerundmidnight not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4not wantpast · do-supportBoubouvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5see not said to happento-infinitiveBoubou not said hereany bloodshedvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bloodshed=Stimulus
6resignBoubounom resignation «feeling transitive»: poss=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Mali», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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