Mali, sentence 177
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.
Shortly after, Bah N'daw was named interim president by a group of 17 electors, with Goïta being appointed vice president.
Who acts: group, Goïta · What happens: name, appoint · To what, where: Bah, vice president
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 (group, Goïta), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 after | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADV | _ | 7 named | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 after | punct |
| 4 | Bah | Bah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | N'daw | N'daw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bah | flat |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 named | aux:pass |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | interim | interim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 president | amod |
| 9 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 named | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 group | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 group | det |
| 12 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 named | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 electors | case |
| 14 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 electors | nummod |
| 15 | electors | elector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 group | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Goïta | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Goïta | case |
| 18 | Goïta | Goïta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | obl |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 appointed | aux:pass |
| 20 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Goïta | acl |
| 21 | vice | vice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 president | compound |
| 22 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 appointed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | a group of 17 electors | Bah | with Goïta; interim president obj; after property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme president=Attribute | |||
| 2 | appoint | gerund · passive | Goïta not said here | vice president | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: president=Theme |
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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