Mali, sentence 465
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.
Literary tradition is passed mainly by word of mouth, with jalis reciting or singing histories and stories known by heart.
Who acts: word, jalis · What happens: pass, recite, sing, know, word · To what, where: Literary tradition, histories, mouth
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 (word, jalis), 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 | Literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tradition | amod |
| 2 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux:pass |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 word | case |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 jalis | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 jalis | case |
| 12 | jalis | jali | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 13 | reciting | recite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 jalis | acl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 singing | cc |
| 15 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 reciting | conj |
| 16 | histories | history | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 singing | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stories | cc |
| 18 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 histories | conj |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 histories | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 known | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present · passive | word of mouth | Literary tradition | jalis parataxis; mainly property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | recite | gerund | jalis not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | jalis not said here | histories and stories | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location history=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | participle | histories and stories not said here | by heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | word | mouth | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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.
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