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title: The Mali Empire was ruled by Mansa (Emperors), including Kankou Mous… — Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mali Empire was ruled by Mansa (Emperors), including Kankou Moussa, who made a hajj to Mecca in 1324. Who acts: Mansa, Kankou. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea, sentence 32

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From Wikipedia, [«Guinea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea), 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 Mali Empire was ruled by Mansa (Emperors), including Kankou Moussa, who made a hajj to Mecca in 1324.

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**Who acts:** Mansa, Kankou · **What happens:** rule, make · **To what, where:** Mali Empire, hajj, 1324

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guinea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mansa, Kankou), 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:Guinea:32
# text = The Mali Empire was ruled by Mansa (Emperors), including Kankou Moussa, who made a hajj to Mecca in 1324.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mali	Mali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mansa	Mansa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Emperors	emperor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	including	including	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kankou	Kankou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	Moussa	Moussa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hajj	hajj	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1324	1324	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past · passive | Mansa | the Mali Empire |  |  |  | including Kankou | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 2 | **make** | past | Kankou | a hajj |  | 1324 |  | to Mecca | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hajj=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, «Guinea», 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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