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title: The government is suspected of supporting some of these groups under… — Mali · tree and pragmatics
description: The government is suspected of supporting some of these groups under the guise of being proxies in the war against Islamists in the northern Mali conflict. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mali» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mali, sentence 152

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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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The government is suspected of supporting some of these groups under the guise of being proxies in the war against Islamists in the northern Mali conflict.

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**What happens:** suspect, support, be · **To what, where:** government, some, guise, war

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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: 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:152
# text = The government is suspected of supporting some of these groups under the guise of being proxies in the war against Islamists in the northern Mali conflict.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	suspected	suspect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	supporting	support	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	guise	guise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
16	proxies	proxy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Islamists	Islamist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Mali	Mali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suspect** | present · passive |  | the government |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **support** | gerund |  | some of this groups |  | the guise |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | the war against Islamists in the northern Mali conflict |  | of proxies | 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, «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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