Mali, sentence 387
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.
This conflict also plays a role in the continuing northern Mali conflict where there is a tension between both Tuaregs and the Malian government, and the Tuaregs and Jihadist militias who are trying to establish sharia.
Who acts: conflict, tension, Jihadist militias · What happens: play, continue, be, try, establish · To what, where: role, northern Mali conflict, sharia
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 (conflict, tension, Jihadist militias), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 conflict | det |
| 2 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 plays | advmod |
| 4 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 role | det |
| 6 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 conflict | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 conflict | det |
| 9 | continuing | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 conflict | nsubj |
| 10 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 conflict | amod |
| 11 | Mali | Mali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 conflict | compound |
| 12 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 is | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 conflict | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tension | det |
| 17 | tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 Tuaregs | case |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 Tuaregs | det |
| 20 | Tuaregs | Tuareg | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 tension | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 government | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 government | det |
| 23 | Malian | malian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 government | amod |
| 24 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Tuaregs | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Tuaregs | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Tuaregs | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Tuaregs | det |
| 28 | Tuaregs | Tuareg | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 plays | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 militias | cc |
| 30 | Jihadist | Jihadist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 militias | compound |
| 31 | militias | militia | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 Tuaregs | conj |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 trying | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 trying | aux |
| 34 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 militias | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 establish | mark |
| 36 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 trying | xcomp |
| 37 | sharia | sharia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 establish | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | this conflict | a role | the northern Mali conflict | the Tuaregs and Jihadist militias obl | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme | ||
| 2 | continue | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | be | present | a tension between both Tuaregs and the Malian government | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try | present · progressive | Jihadist militias | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | establish not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jihadist militias not said here | sharia | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sharia=Patient |
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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