Mali, sentence 385
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.
Although Mali has enjoyed reasonably good inter-ethnic relationships based on a long history of coexistence, some hereditary servitude and bondage relationship exist, as well as ethnic tension between settled Songhai and nomadic Tuaregs of the north.
Who acts: good ethnic relationships · What happens: enjoy, base, exist, settle · To what, where: Mali, good ethnic relationships, long history, Songhai
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 (good ethnic relationships), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 4 enjoyed | mark |
| 2 | Mali | Mali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 enjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 enjoyed | aux |
| 4 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 settled | advcl |
| 5 | reasonably | reasonably | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 relationships | amod |
| 7 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ethnic | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 inter | punct |
| 9 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 relationships | amod |
| 10 | relationships | relationship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 exist | nsubj |
| 11 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 relationships | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 history | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 history | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 history | amod |
| 15 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 based | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 coexistence | case |
| 17 | coexistence | coexistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 history | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 servitude | punct |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 servitude | det |
| 20 | hereditary | hereditary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 servitude | amod |
| 21 | servitude | servitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 history | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 relationship | cc |
| 23 | bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 relationship | compound |
| 24 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 servitude | conj |
| 25 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 enjoyed | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 settled | punct |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 33 settled | cc |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 as | fixed |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 tension | case |
| 30 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tension | amod |
| 31 | tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 settled | obl |
| 32 | between | between | ADP | _ | 33 settled | case |
| 33 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 34 | Songhai | Songhai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 settled | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Tuaregs | cc |
| 36 | nomadic | nomadic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Tuaregs | amod |
| 37 | Tuaregs | tuareg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 Songhai | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 north | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 north | det |
| 40 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Tuaregs | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | present · perfect · passive | Mali | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | base | participle | good ethnic relationships not said here | a long history of coexistence and some hereditary servitude and bondage relationship | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on history=Source | ||||
| 3 | exist | present | good ethnic relationships | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | settle | participle | Songhai and nomadic Tuaregs of the north | as ethnic tension | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme songhai=Location |
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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