Mali, sentence 191
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.
On 2 May, the military government announced breaking its defence accords concluded in 2013 with France, constituting an additional step in the deterioration of Malian–French relations.
Who acts: military government, Malian French relations · What happens: announce, break, conclude, constitute, deteriorate · To what, where: defence accords, 2013, additional step, deterioration
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 (military government, Malian French relations), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 May | case |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 May | nummod |
| 3 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 announced | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 May | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 government | det |
| 6 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 government | amod |
| 7 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 announced | nsubj |
| 8 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 announced | xcomp |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 accords | nmod:poss |
| 11 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accords | compound |
| 12 | accords | accord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 breaking | obj |
| 13 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 accords | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 2013 | case |
| 15 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 concluded | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 France | case |
| 17 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 concluded | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 constituting | punct |
| 19 | constituting | constitute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 breaking | advcl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 step | det |
| 21 | additional | additional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 step | amod |
| 22 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 constituting | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 deterioration | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 deterioration | det |
| 25 | deterioration | deterioration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 constituting | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 relations | case |
| 27 | Malian | malian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 relations | amod |
| 28 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Malian | punct |
| 29 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 relations | amod |
| 30 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 deterioration | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | the military government | may | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | break | gerund | the military government not said here | end's defence accords | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer accord=Patient | ||||
| 3 | conclude | participle | end's defence accords not said here | 2013 | with France | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with france=Subeventuality | |||
| 4 | constitute | gerund | the military government not said here | a additional step | the deterioration of Malian French relations | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Pivot | |||
| 5 | deteriorate | Malian French relations | nom deterioration «state intransitive»: of=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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