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title: By contrast, small market gardens and launching points or river cano… — Bamako · tree and pragmatics
description: By contrast, small market gardens and launching points or river canoes lie along the river front. Who acts: small market gardens. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bamako» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bamako, sentence 125

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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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By contrast, small market gardens and launching points or river canoes lie along the river front.

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**Who acts:** small market gardens · **What happens:** launch, lie

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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 (small market gardens), 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:125
# text = By contrast, small market gardens and launching points or river canoes lie along the river front.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	launching	launch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | present | small market gardens and launching points or river canoes |  |  |  |  | by contrast; along the river front | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by contrast=Location |

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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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