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title: In the midst of that trial, two sides argue whether the World Bank a… — Bamako · tree and pragmatics
description: In the midst of that trial, two sides argue whether the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, or perhaps corruption, are guilty of the financial state of many poverty-stricken African countries. Who acts: two sides. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bamako» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bamako, sentence 194

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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 the midst of that trial, two sides argue whether the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, or perhaps corruption, are guilty of the financial state of many poverty-stricken African countries.

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**Who acts:** two sides · **What happens:** argue, be · **To what, where:** midst

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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 (two sides), 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:194
# text = In the midst of that trial, two sides argue whether the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, or perhaps corruption, are guilty of the financial state of many poverty-stricken African countries.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Monetary	Monetary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	Fund	Fund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
32	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	stricken	stricken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | two sides |  |  | the midst of that trial |  | the World Bank and International Monetary *ccomp* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | two sides *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the financial state of many stricken African countries; guilty *property* | tree rules |

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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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