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title: Keïta and Prime Minister Boubou Cissé were arrested, and shortly aft… — Mali · tree and pragmatics
description: Keïta and Prime Minister Boubou Cissé were arrested, and shortly after midnight Keïta announced his resignation, saying he did not want to see any bloodshed. Who acts: midnight, Boubou. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mali» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mali, sentence 172

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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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Keïta and Prime Minister Boubou Cissé were arrested, and shortly after midnight Keïta announced his resignation, saying he did not want to see any bloodshed.

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**Who acts:** midnight, Boubou · **What happens:** arrest, announce, say, not want, see, resign · **To what, where:** Boubou, resignation, bloodshed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (midnight, Boubou), 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:172
# text = Keïta and Prime Minister Boubou Cissé were arrested, and shortly after midnight Keïta announced his resignation, saying he did not want to see any bloodshed.
1	Keïta	Keïta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	1	conj	_	_
4	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Boubou	Boubou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	Cissé	Cissé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Keïta	Keïta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	resignation	resignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	bloodshed	bloodshed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrest** | past · passive |  | Boubou  Keïta Minister |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | midnight | Boubou's resignation |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resignation=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | midnight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | Boubou |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Boubou *not said here* | any bloodshed |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bloodshed=Stimulus |
| 6 | **resign** |  | Boubou |  |  |  |  |  | nom resignation «feeling transitive»: poss=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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