Mali, sentence 47
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.
The Mali Empire formed on the upper Niger River and reached its height of power in the 14th century.
Who acts: Mali Empire · What happens: form, reach · To what, where: upper Niger River, height
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 (Mali Empire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Empire | det |
| 2 | Mali | Mali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Empire | compound |
| 3 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | nsubj |
| 4 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 River | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 River | det |
| 7 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 River | amod |
| 8 | Niger | Niger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 River | compound |
| 9 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reached | cc |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 formed | conj |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 height | nmod:poss |
| 13 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 power | case |
| 15 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 height | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 century | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 century | det |
| 18 | 14th | 14th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 19 century | amod |
| 19 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | the Mali Empire | the upper Niger River | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on river=Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the Mali Empire not said here | downfall's height of power | century | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent height=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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