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title: Yes, sure, there are jihadists in this zone, but the real problem is… — Mali · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, sure, there are jihadists in this zone, but the real problem is banditry, animal theft, score settling – people are enriching themselves using the fight against terrorists as a cover. Who acts: jihadists, problem banditry, people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mali» with its dependency tree and pr
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# Mali, sentence 150

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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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Yes, sure, there are jihadists in this zone, but the real problem is banditry, animal theft, score settling – people are enriching themselves using the fight against terrorists as a cover.

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**Who acts:** jihadists, problem banditry, people · **What happens:** be, settle, enrich, use · **To what, where:** problem banditry, people, fight

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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 (jihadists, problem banditry, people), 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:150
# text = Yes, sure, there are jihadists in this zone, but the real problem is banditry, animal theft, score settling – people are enriching themselves using the fight against terrorists as a cover.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	jihadists	jihadist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	banditry	banditry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	settling	settle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
24	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	enriching	enrich	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	against	against	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	terrorists	terrorist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **does** | present | jihadists in this zone |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | problem banditry and animal theft and score |  |  |  | animal theft *conj*; score *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **settle** | gerund | problem banditry and animal theft and score *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **enrich** | present · progressive | people | people |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Destination |
| 5 | **use** | gerund | people *not said here* | the fight |  |  |  | against terrorists; as a cover | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent fight=Duration as cover=Attribute |

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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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