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title: The drinking water supply in Bamako and Kati is also ensured by a pu… — Bamako · tree and pragmatics
description: The drinking water supply in Bamako and Kati is also ensured by a pumping station on the Niger River. Who acts: pumping station. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bamako» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bamako, sentence 115

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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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The drinking water supply in Bamako and Kati is also ensured by a pumping station on the Niger River.

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**Who acts:** pumping station · **What happens:** ensure, pump · **To what, where:** water supply

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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 (pumping station), 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:115
# text = The drinking water supply in Bamako and Kati is also ensured by a pumping station on the Niger River.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Bamako	Bamako	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Kati	Kati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ensured	ensure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	pumping	pump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Niger	Niger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ensure** | present · passive | a pumping station on the Niger River | the water supply in Bamako and Kati |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Theme |
| 2 | **pump** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

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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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