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title: Scattered acts of rioting and vandalism of public buildings followed… — Mali · tree and pragmatics
description: Scattered acts of rioting and vandalism of public buildings followed, but most actions by the dissidents remained nonviolent. Who acts: Scattered acts, rioting, dissidents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mali» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mali, sentence 117

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From Wikipedia, [«Mali»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali), 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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Scattered acts of rioting and vandalism of public buildings followed, but most actions by the dissidents remained nonviolent.

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**Who acts:** Scattered acts, rioting, dissidents · **What happens:** follow, remain, act · **To what, where:** public buildings

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mali». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scattered acts, rioting, dissidents), 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:Mali:117
# text = Scattered acts of rioting and vandalism of public buildings followed, but most actions by the dissidents remained nonviolent.
1	Scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	2	amod	_	_
2	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	rioting	rioting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	vandalism	vandalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dissidents	dissident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	nonviolent	nonviolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | participle |  | public buildings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | past | Scattered acts of rioting and vandalism of public buildings but most actions by the dissidents |  |  |  |  | nonviolent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **act** |  | rioting and vandalism of public buildings |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **act** |  | the dissidents |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: by=agent |

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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, «Mali», 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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