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title: Shortly after, Bah N'daw was named interim president by a group of 1… — Mali · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly after, Bah N'daw was named interim president by a group of 17 electors, with Goïta being appointed vice president. Who acts: group, Goïta. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mali» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mali, sentence 177

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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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Shortly after, Bah N'daw was named interim president by a group of 17 electors, with Goïta being appointed vice president.

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**Who acts:** group, Goïta · **What happens:** name, appoint · **To what, where:** Bah, vice president

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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 (group, Goïta), 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:177
# text = Shortly after, Bah N'daw was named interim president by a group of 17 electors, with Goïta being appointed vice president.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Bah	Bah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	N'daw	N'daw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	interim	interim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	electors	elector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Goïta	Goïta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	vice	vice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive | a group of 17 electors | Bah |  |  |  | with Goïta; interim president *obj*; after *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme president=Attribute |
| 2 | **appoint** | gerund · passive | Goïta *not said here* | vice president |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: president=Theme |

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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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