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title: In recent years, China has become an important investor in Bamako, d… — Bamako · tree and pragmatics
description: In recent years, China has become an important investor in Bamako, developing its infrastructure and facilities. Who acts: China. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bamako» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bamako, sentence 112

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From Wikipedia, [«Bamako»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamako), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In recent years, China has become an important investor in Bamako, developing its infrastructure and facilities.

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**Who acts:** China · **What happens:** become, develop · **To what, where:** important investor, infrastructure

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bamako». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (China), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bamako:112
# text = In recent years, China has become an important investor in Bamako, developing its infrastructure and facilities.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	investor	investor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Bamako	Bamako	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	developing	develop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	facilities	facility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present · perfect | China | a important investor in Bamako |  |  | year |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **develop** | gerund | China *not said here* | investor's infrastructure and facilities |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infrastructure=Product |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bamako», 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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